Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Warwick Museum
Site: Ireland,Kildare or King's Co.,Bog of Allan
Discovery context: bog
Parish: Allan
County: County Kildare
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 99
Width (mm): 42
Weight (g): 80
Patina: green
Surface: Quite rough
Composition: Bronze
Remarks: My sketches No. 81 & 82 are of a pair of small palstaves cast from the same mould. The "git" has been broken off leaving them different lengths. They are castings in the "rough" or as a maker would now call them "Blanks".