Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sir Arthur Evans' Collection
Site: England, oxfordshire,cowley,leopold street, cowley road,1882
Hoard: yes
Parish: Cowley
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 176
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 34
Weight (g): 614
Patina: Blue and green patina.
Other: Weight: 614.23 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of nine palstaves and a socketed celt.
Description: Deep hole in face of stop-ridge. Hammer marks clearly visible in places. Badly damaged on blade. Two lenticular depressions below stop-ridge on both sides. On right side of stop-ridge (with loop placed to right) a bulbous excrescence due to flaw in the mould.
Remarks: Labelled by Sir John Evans: "With 9 others and a celt, Cowley Road, Oxford, 1882, C.J. Regan."