Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum. 92 9-1 310.
Site: England, dorset,tarrant monckton. near, blandford,1842 cal: 34.
Parish: Tarrant Monckton
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: ST 94 08
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 162
Edge (mm): 69
Thickness (mm): 36
Weight (g): 478
Patina: Black
Surface: smooth
Composition: Bronze
Other: 2 cross section drawings of palstave on reverse.,Loop is intact.,raised metal transversing stop and lateral sides (loop side and obverse), mending weld?,Butt distinctly rounded.,Flanges wide about halfway up septum, then taper rapidly to butt.
Description: strong side & stop ridges. ribs at right Angles on one side, wide blade.
Remarks: AOK,CI