Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Reading Museum 370:57,Backhouse Collection
Site: England, cambridgeshire,reach fen (nr cambridge),may 1862
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Patina: Remains of thick black patina. Implement has been mechanically cleaned since discovery.
Surface: Poor. Deeply pitted and edges ragged. Some of this may be the result of corrosion but majority seems to have been caused in the casting.
Composition: Bronze.