Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,4282.22,deposited on loan by Mr. C. H. Butcher, 1922.
Site: England, essex,grays thurrock (near),about 1870
Parish: Grays
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 161
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 455
Surface: The face is encrusted where shown and the remainder has dark green patina. Very rough on t he reverse, which is covered with t hick greeny-blue encrustment. Very much corroded with warty patina. One side of septum is clean and more free from encrustment. On reverse the septum is partly covered with encrustment and soil.
Other: Width: edge 52.5mm; middle 28mm; butt 21.5mm,Thickness: 30mm; 28mm; 8.5mm; 25mm,Weight: 455.17 gms
Associations: Found with another No. 4283.22
Description: Beneath stop is a hollow, with a raised edge.