Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Winchester Museum,Dale Collection 25 = 313.1-26/17,This must be the stolen one (MH 26/1/74),Checked June 74: this palstave, and not D.C. 33 must have been stolen. Some confusion of labels, now rectified.
Site: England, hampshire,southampton,peartree green
Parish: Southampton
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 155
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 24
Weight (g): 347
Patina: Brownish green, visible in a few places
Surface: Badly pitted. Wings decayed in places.
Other: Width: edge 51mm; middle 23mm; butt 20mm,Thickness: 24mm; 9mm,Weight: 347.28 gms
Associations: Hoard originally of 41 objects. 2 in B.M.
Publications: Proc. Soc. Ant. XVII; 1898,Proc. H.F.C., 1898