Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hampshire Co.. Museum Service,ex-Zillwood, Mr. M.A. - private (no. 3)
Site: England, hampshire,minstead,clay hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Minstead
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 287 118
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 156
Width (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 425
Patina: Mottled dark to grass green patina over much; rest badly flaked or lumpy corr. to pale bluey - green dry surface.
Associations: 7a Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 156mm; Wbt 24.7mm; Bfg 29.5mm; minBst 27.2mm; Tsep 7.6mm; Wt. 425.1 gms,Typology: very slight central ridge on bl.; more prom. and neat on rev. - upper parts flattened and flanked by triang. hollows - not sym.; stop crests flattened - not regular, fg. crests rounded where intact; bl. sides double facetted; one sep. floor more rounded than other; diffuse bev. at top of sep; one sep end with one definite short rib - rev. with prom. one to left. and poss. other(s),Manufacture: Pronounced hammer rippling of bl. faces, less prom. on sides;  no definite e bev - bit diffuse one on rev. face; small porosity hollow in one sep. end; some gmks across bl. e. may be ancient; stump of cg. fl only evid between loop stumps - fully removed elsewhere on intact sides,Condition: bl. e. all lost through corr. dam. - poss. previous dam. also; most of break pale green, but one tip grey-green - poss. just p. flaked; presumed loop stumps now just corroded lumps; most of butt lost, little poss. near intact; part of fg. crests little corr. dam; crevice in patina below one top - prob. recent dam.,Attached Material: small traces of yello to yellow-brown soil