Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England, cambridgeshire,streatham,grunty fen,1844
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Streatham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1844
Length (mm): 178
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 562
Patina: Greeny brown patina. In the corroded places pale green and butt with specks of orange.
Surface: Smooth. Corroded in one or two places.
Other: Width; edge 49mm; butt 22mm; middle 26mm,Thickness: 40mm; 13mm
Associations: Found with the gold Torques 1844.
Description: Looped. Blade damaged. A slight median running down blade.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 57, Catalogue lost.,Bronzes 61. The numbers are to be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology"