Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Roberts, Mr. D. I. - private,Broom Farm, Stanwondine, Baschurch, Shropshire
Site: England, shropshire,wem rural
Parish: Wem Rural
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SJ 460 326
Year of discovery: 1979
Length (mm): 167
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 76
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 545
Surface: mottled olive green, brown patina - much intact; much on one blade face rubbed/flaked away to green dry surface, reverse blade to bright gold
Associations: 8b Single Find
Description: Dimensions: L 167 mm; We 75.8mm; W shoulder 27.5mm; Wbt 25.4mm; Bfg. 34.7mm; maxBst 30.5mm; maxTsep 8.5mm; Wt 545.4gms,Typology: shield depression on blade with no encircling rib; stop thick with round bevel - slightly dipped towards either flange; slight bar ridges on sides; cross-section - sep. floor curved, inside angles slightly rounded; fg. crests rounded; very diffuse bev. across fg. tops on butt,Manufacture: butt end broken surface from snapping off cg. jet; similar hole in one sep. end, one half partly filled with more vesicular metal; cg. flash well remoced for most part - evident as groove and/or ridge; neat high e. bev. plus two (or one on rev) close to edge; very slight blade tip hollows; dimpling on patina on sides and in septums - probably in the moulding; haammering of tops of two flanges has caused slight lipping on one side.,Condition: some minor denting of edge, stretches fairly sharp; tips both a little blunted - one retains patina, the other + all of reverse blade face polished to bright gold colour by finder; crack across the base of one fg - damage? - another surface fissure across one corner of blade
Publications: a) Salop S.A.M. Record - SA2660
Remarks: Circumstances: Found Sept. 1979 by Mr. Roberts on the surface of the field while potato lifting - area known as Rockery Meadows: the field has been ploughed annually in recent years; it is just possible that the ace had been dumped with the material dredged from the River Roden which borders the field. (a)