Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2698
Site: England, berkshire,newbury, near,in a peat bog
Discovery context: peat
Parish: Newbury
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 167
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 67
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 386
Patina: Green-brown.
Other: Width: edge 67mm; centre 24mm; butt 20mm,Centre: 7mm; 26mm,Weight: 385.8 gms
Description: U-shaped hollow below stop ridge. Edge hammered. Casting ridges hammered flat on butt. Casting flaw-hole in diaphragm.
Publications: Evans, Anc Br Imps, p.77