Object: Double Looped Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Taunton Caste,Somerset County Museum, presented April 1935,Mr. Dicks the finder, give it to Dr. Fawars of Chard, who gave it to the Museum.
Site: England, somerset,curland,near taunton
Parish: Curland
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1934
Length (mm): 168
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 490
Description: The flanges taper from the prominent stop ridge towards the butt: on both faces of the palstave is a well-defined [tongue?] shaped ridge which protrudes from the stop ridge towards the cutting edge. The fin down the middle of both sides (casting mark) has not been entirely removed. Both the cutting edge and the butt have been considerably hammered. In places the bright surface of the bronze indicates "polishing up" by finder.
Publications: Antiq. Journ. XVII. 63 fig. 1.
Remarks: Found in 1934 in digging port hole in yard of a small holding known as "Mount Pleasant" c. 600 feet above sea level. "Mount Pleasant" is not named on 6"0-S. LXXX S.W., but it is the building 530 yards SSE of Curland Church, and, as the crow flies, only 680 yards NNW of the "Beacon" of Castle Neroche (see Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. XLIX ii 23-53). The impt. was found by D.G. Dicks, the owner of the building, at a depth of 3 ft.