Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Leicester Museum,Given by Mr. Thomas B. Beeson,Atkin Street, Leicester,1 August 1888
Site: England, leicestershire,bardon,found whilst ditching at bardon hill by a labourer, john toone, about 1875.
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Bardon
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1875
Length (mm): 164
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 25
Weight (g): 346
Other: Width: edge 58mm; centre 26mm,Thickness; 24.5mm; 8mm
Description: Broken and mended. Originally had dark-green patina, which has been chipped off, leaving a light green oxidised surface.
Publications: Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophic Society IX (1888), 29.