Object: Palstave Chisel Axe-like
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.,Evans Coll’n 1927-2381
Site: England,Cambs.,Burwell,Burwell Fen,1871
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 144
Width (mm): centre 19, butt 18
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): centre 7-20
Weight (g): 172.48
Patina: Iron brown
Other: Georef not working for me. Publications - full title is "The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain (1872)".
Description: Shield on faces. Slight transverse ridge on sides well below stop-ridge. "The flanges at the sides of the recess have some notches running diagonally into them, so as to form a kind of barb such as would prevent the blade from being drawn away from the handle when bound to it by a cord." (Evans, p83). These are omitted from drawing made for this index
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p.83, fig. 67.