Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum. Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2591
Site: England, nottinghamshire,colwick,in gravel of river trent
Discovery context: river
Parish: Colwick
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 168
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 66
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 479
Patina: Fine patina, reddish brown on one face, greenish-brown on the other.
Other: Width: edge 66mm; centre 27mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: centre 10mm; 31mm,Weight: 478.7 gms
Description: Crescentic hammered blade. faint bosses on sides below stop-ridge.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. p. 77, Fig. 58