Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mrs. Kite Lane Head Sparkbridge, Greenodd, NL Ulverston.,Formerly owned by Miss Dixton of Wateryeat about 70 years ago. (Mrs. Kite was a Dixon before marraige.)
Site: England, ?cumbria,place of origin uncertain, but likely to have been in the water yeat/lowick area of cumbria (lancashire) (furness)
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 149
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 25
Weight (g): 510
Other: Length: 5 7/8" = 149.225mm,Width: across cutting edge 2 3/4" = 69.85mm,Thickness: across flanges 1" = 25.4,Weight: 1lb 2 oz = 510.291 (scales not very accurate)
Associations: Nothing known.
Description: This palstave is in very good condition. The cutting edge is worn at one end. There is a raised shield shaped area below the stop ridge which is well developed. Good smooth patina. File marks on face of implement below stop ridge. Edge has been hammered sharp.
Publications: NLL. A very similar palstave found near Wraysholme Tower, near Allthwaite, Cartmel, Cumbria (Lanes) is illustrated in Trans. C. W. (O.S.) XVI 152-156 - it is so like it might be from the same mould. The present whereabouts of the Wraysholme Tower palstave is uncetain.  Mr. Newby Wilson's effects were sold after his death. Note: Wraysholme Tower axe now in Barrow-in-Furness Museum. See CW (NS) LXIII.281.
Remarks: Compiler Clare Wrey 26 Jan. '62.