Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: locality unknown
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 151
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 61
Thickness (mm): 28
Weight (g): 356
Patina: Brown patina metal showing through.
Surface: Smooth and shiny
Other: Width: edge 61mm; middle 25mm; butt 23,Thickness: 28mm; 9mm
Description: Both sides have been hammered but not in any pattern. Blade edge damaged. Blade has also hammer marks as far up as shield. Shield shaped ornament below the stop ridge from which runs a median ridge down the blade. Loop broken. Stumps appear to be hammered flat.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 25, catalogue lost,Bronzes 74. Numbers to be found in catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue. 123. May 1884.