Object: flanged Palstave
Classification: Bent
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Grosvenor Museum, Chester.,Chester 1840.,On permanent loan from the Trustees of the Museum of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society at Taunton Castle.
Site: ENGLAND,Cheshire,Chester,"Priory Wall, Northgate Street, Chester, 1840" (marked on object).
Parish: Chester
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1840
Length (mm): 168
Width (mm): butt 30
Edge (mm): (conjectural, at edge) c. 60
Thickness (mm): (stopridge) c. 30
Other: 2 cross section drawings of object attached to reverse.,Almost more like flanged axe with shelving slot, but stop ridge is complete with wings extending forward onto blade as side ridges.,Wings large and tubular, extend a bit below stop and then widen toward butt before angling in sharply at butt.,Blade widens slightly and evenly from stop to edge.,Edge slightly crescent shaped, a little over half of edge from one corner missing in a gentle fracture.
Description: Wings of butt much exaggerated and slightly incurved. Surface in good condition. Edge broken at one side.
Publications: Journal of the Chester and North Wales Architectural Archaeological and Historic Society, Vol. 40 (1953), p. 63 and fig. 17.
Remarks: Judith A. P. Angles.