Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lewes, East Sussex School Museum Service,-B,Source unknown
Site: unprovenanced
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 170
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 5
Surface: Dull brown, gold mainly at corners etc. where rubbed; numerous pock scars - few with palid green corr. products within
Description: Dimentions: L 169.7mm; We 57.7mm; Blp 2.8mm; Bst 31.8mm; T sep 4.6mm,Typology: curious thin loop must be near original proportions; asymmetrical fg. shapes probably also original; central ridge below stop becomes broad and round lower; very straight sep. sides, flat sep. bottom and crisp angles with steep fg. insides,Manufacture: at top of sides thin quite sharp ridge, lower - a broad low rounded stump of cg. fl.; no defined edge bevel surviving.,Condition: blade edge little jagged, parts sharp -  but gold suggests recent interf.; irreg. lattice of some marks on lower blade prob. also modern
Remarks: Context: 9 Undocumented.