Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology Cambridge,(Deck Collection)
Site: England, cambridgeshire,burwell fen,1851
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1851
Length (mm): 159
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 26
Weight (g): 487
Patina: Green patina mostly and brown and metal showing through.
Surface: Smooth.
Other: Width: edge 70mm; middle 26.5mm; butt 27mm,Thickness: 25.5mm; 8mm
Description: Stop ridge and semi-elliptical ornament below the stop.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 23 - Catalogue lost.,Bronzes 69. Numbers to be found in catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 119, May 1884, (Deck Collection)