Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,No. 34,Presented b y the Earl of Powis
Site: wales,montgomery,welshpool,"the camp" a field between pool quay and the coppice,1862,"guilsfield hoard"
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 101
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 31
Other: Width: edge 40mm; middle 33mm (including loop),Thickness: 31mm; 16mm; 12mm.
Associations: Found with numerous other bronze implements (part of a hoard).
Description: On face shown and on sides, coated in parts with rough grey green patina over smooth and shiny blackish green metal, which shows near edge and on ridge.  The other face is more worn and shows a fairly uniform smooth blue-green patina, slightly pitted in lower part. There are slight lines down the sides, but it appears to have been cast whole.
Publications: Arch. Camb. X (3rd Series) p.214,Evans A. B. Imps., pp. 87, 114, 174, 285, 302, 315, 336, 339, 424, 467.,Proc. Soc. Ants. Vol II, (2nd S) p. 250.,"Montgom Coll." Vol. iii, p. 437.