Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology Cambridge,from Evans Collection (Fenton Sons)
Site: England, cambridgeshire,hauxton,1849
Parish: Hauxton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1849
Length (mm): 161
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 77
Thickness (mm): 26
Weight (g): 485
Patina: All colours dark and light brown and dust colour. Also shades of green and yellow grey.
Surface: Smooth and shiny in places.
Other: Width: edge 77mm; middle 25mm; butt 27.5mm,Thickness; 25.5mm; 9mm; 12mm
Description: Broad low stop ridge, latter being below the level of the side flanges. Very slight median ridge running down blade.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 13, Catalogue lost.,Foster Bequest 8. Numbers do not always correspond to catalogue.