Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Slade, Mr. P.D. - private (1983),111 Belmont Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex,Bough  July 1983 at Charing Cross Arches
Site: England, norfolk,unprovenanced,thought to be a metal detector find in the norfolk fens
Discovery context: metal detector
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 165
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 67
Weight (g): 413
Surface: Dull dark brown and gold surfaces; some large corrosion pits and mainly very small pocks, ? remnants of patina within shield design and septum
Associations: 9 Unknown
Description: Dimensions: L164.5mm; Ewe 67.2mm; Wbt 21.8 mm; b fg 28mm; h fg 9.3mm; b loop 4.8mm; Wt. 413.2 gms,Typology:Small ledge at cg. flash on rev. side; midrib thins as it enters shield;  body angles are very crisp,Manufacture: large cavities in and around broken flange; big notch in base of one flange may have been a cg. flaw; shallow holes in septum ends; weak edge bevels,Condition: one flange recently broken off, but still retained; edge mainly chipped or blunt