Object: PALSTAVE
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: IVORY, Mr P.D. - private,23 Woodleigh Court, Stuart Crescent, London N. 22,(Cast in National Museum of Wales, Cardiff)
Site: gwent,goetre fawr,penpelleni
Parish: Penpelleni
Country: Wales
Grid reference: SO 32 04
Year of discovery: 1969
Length (mm): 172.2
Edge (mm): 47.9
Weight (g): 520.4
Patina: patches of thin milley green patina
Surface: limited patches of thin milley green p., mainly in sep.; most flaked to v. dusty dull brown to purply brown sur.; occ. pock scars low on bl.,ATTACHED MATERIAL: soil traces attached mainly to p. - light pinky brown; a little orange staining
Other: Uncertain on Geolocation accuracy.,5 cross section drawings of palstave on reverse.
Description: TYPOLOGY: bl. faces with merest trace of midridge; bl. sides well bowed in cross-sec., corners fairly sharp; stops a little curved; virt. flat sep. floor with crisp flange angles - diffuse bev. across top of fgs.; one undam. fg. convex in profile; butt top little convex prof. prob. original; hollow under loop; rough flattening across stop crests,MANUFACTURE: low broad cg. fl. stump on haft sides, lower indications in corr. pattern; hollow just above loop - cg. flaw - as also swallow hole at end of rev. haft slot; poss. had e. bev. - some sharpening indicated by sl. bl. tip hollows, but prob. not accounting for all of bl. expansion,CONDITION: three fgs. chipped - look anc. breaks; bl. e. virt. all chipped - purply-brown surs.
Remarks: found about 1969,no further details could be obtained no response to letters.,PIF,SI,CI,DF S,Rec.: Sn. Jan 80,Source: Sb.A.,Sub. Inf.: Ivory