Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Site: England,  bucks,, burnham,, slough trading estate; midway between windsor lane and dove road; just north of railway: at depth of 2 feet 1926
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: Burnham
County: Buckinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 166
Width (mm): 56
Thickness (mm): 31
Patina: cleaned (....) to bronze
Surface: pitted
Associations: 13 other palstaves (1 has disappeared)
Description: large piece of cutting-edge missing.  Prominent ridge down middle of face of blade.  Sh(....)p-shaped loop between ridge & centre.  Lumps of metal indicate position of broken loop.
Publications: Antiq. Journ: XIII SS Pl. VIII H
Remarks: lmacc,,  Jan 8/1936 re drawing on the reverse, by E. Hollis of Aylesbury Museum, indicates the shape of a broken loop. In Antig. Journ. XIII SS, R.A. Smith states that none of the palstaves have loops.  Jan 11/1936 A plasticene squeeze sent by Hollis to B.M. shows quite clearly that the blobs of metal are definitely shapes of a broken loop, & not mouldmarks.