Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,donor Mr. T. Beacall
Site: England, shropshire,battlefield (almost certainly),probably found with hoard-1862.
Discovery context: battlefield
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 143
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 52
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 344
Patina: Grey green patina with golden metal showing.
Surface: Pocked in several places
Composition: Bronze: Copper 82.6; Tin 11.8; Iron trace; Lead 4.9; Silver 0.04; Total 99.37; Analysis by Prof. C.O. Bannister, 1925.
Other: Width: edge 52mm; middle 23mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: 10mm; 31mm,Weight: 343.74 gms
Description: There is a hole 5mm wide and 7mm deep in septum at stop.
Publications: Proc. Soc. Ant. V (2) 431-2 (8 objects shown),At the Exhibition of Shropshire Antiquities 1898, 3 celts from Battlefield were lent by Shrewsbury Museum (No. J. 35),Shrops. Arch. Trans. X 2nd Series p.108.,Only 2 celts are labelled as from Battlefield: these were presented by Mr. T. Beacall (Shrops. Arch. Trans. III [3rd S] p. xxii.). Preb. T. Anden in his History of Prehistoric Antiqs. of Shrops, Voc. Co. His. I, p. 202 mentions 3 Bronze Celts from Battlefield. This is presumably the third.
Remarks: Labelled "No. 35. T. Beacall" This refers to the 1898 Exhibition.