Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Bolton Castle Museum, Castle Bolton,(nr. Leyburn), N.R. Yorkshire
Site: England, cambridgeshire,bottisham fen,1880
Parish: Bottisham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1880
Length (mm): 140
Width (mm): 66
Thickness (mm): 20
Weight (g): 425
Patina: Dark green, one brown.
Surface: Smooth with encrustation.
Other: Length: 5.5" = 139.7,Width: 2.6" = (6-5 cm) or 66.04 mm,Thickness: .8" = (1.7 cm) or 20.32 mm,Weight: 15 oz = 425.243 gms
Description: Butt at cutting edge broken. Shield pattern below stop ridge.