Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2602
Site: England, suffolk,mildenhall
Parish: Mildenhall
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 127
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 57
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 293
Patina: Brown
Other: Width: edge 57mm; centre 24mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: centre 12mm; 26mm,Weight: 292.6 gms
Description: Shield on face with grooves flanking central ridge which extends down blade. Edge hammered crescentric. Wings damaged. Butt imperfect. Casting ridge on sides hammered flat.