Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Bronze palstave discovered at Burton Green, a village on high ground 2 1/2 miles North West of Kenilworth, shortly before the 1914-18 war. It has remained ever since in the possession of its finder, Mr. W. A. Beamish, a builder of Hampton-in-Arden, but has been on exhibition at the Birmingham Art Gallery 1928-34 and 1934-36 at the Coventry Museum.
Site: England, warwickshire,burton green,w.kenilworth
Parish: Burton Green
County: Warwickshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 56
Weight (g): 317
Composition: Copper (81%),Tin (11%),Lead(0.9%),Zinc (2.7%),Iron and aluminum present but not determined. Not assayed, arsenic, antimony, phosphorus.
Other: Length: 5 29/32" = 150.02 mm,Width: 2 7/32" = 56.36 mm
Remarks: N.B.: These particulars enclosed in a letter dated 25th Sept. 1944, from Mr. W. A. Seaby, Keeper of the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, to the Secretary Smith of [...] London. In this letter it is states that the palstave is being published by Professor H.F. Humphreys, FSA in the Transactions of the Birmingham Archeological Society for 1941-1942.