Object: Palstavre Chisel
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Borough of Newbury Museum,I.63 (Old Catalogue),Given by Mr. J. W. Roake before 1854
Site: England,Berkshire,Newbury,The neighborhood of,Exact site uncertain
Parish: Newbury
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 81
Width (mm): 17
Edge (mm): 26
Thickness (mm): 15
Surface: The surface is worn and pitted.
Other: Thickness: Butt 14.5mm
Description: It has not been analysed. It appears to be the blade of a palstave, with the head broken off, it has been used as a chisel or wedge.
Publications: L'Anthropologie, T.XXIV. (1913), 644