Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, 1853-4-12          12,  Purchased from Reginald Mantell Esq.
Site: England, SUSSEX (EAST),, Brighton,, Stanmer, Hollingbury Hill,, All found carefully laid out in an excavation in the chalk under a low mound, in 1825.
Discovery context: excavated
Parish: Stanmer
District: Brighton and Hove
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ   31   08
Year of discovery: 1825
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): 80
Weight (g): 680
Patina: dark green
Other: 3-part, detailed, hand-drawn illustration., Lines 2-4 of SITE info in different handwriting and ink, written over white-out label.
Associations: 1 palstave, 1 torc, 3 coiled rings, 4 armlets
Description: no loop.  intentionally broken, THIS NOTATION IS UNDER COMPOSITION.
Publications: Arch. Journ. V, 323, fig.       Evans, pp. 404 etc.
Remarks: a votive deposit of the Middle Bronze Age., LOWER LEFT COLUMN [in pencil]:, On display,  , LOWER RIGHT CORNER [in pencil]:, C 1