Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,Foster Bequest
Site: England, cambridgeshire,chesterton,1865
Parish: Chesterton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1865
Length (mm): 151
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 72
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 442
Surface: Very smooth and shiny. Hardly corroded at all. the metal looks as though polished.
Other: Width: edge 71.5mm; middle 22mm; butt 21.5mm,Thickness: 32mm; 11.5mm
Description: Stop ridge and semi-elliptical ornament below the stop. Also the very slightest ridge continuing therefrom towards blade.
Publications: F.B. (19) Catalogue published by the Antiq. Ctee. 7th Annual Report 1891. 200 copies printed for the Meeting of the R.A.I. held at Cambridge CAS Aug 1892.,Bronzes (55) The numbers to be found in a catalogue named "Museum of Archaeology" CAS. May 1884.