Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Cardiff - National Museum of Wales,39.419,Purchased from M. Criddle, Antique Dealer, of Cardiff and Gloucester.
Site: wales,south
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 142
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 444
Surface: Smooth green patina between wings but largely disappeared on blade and butt-end, leaving rougher greenish-brown surface; horizontal cut on blade near cutting edge (side not illustrated)
Composition: Bronze
Other: Length: 141.5mm,Width: blade 51mm; butt 26mm,Thickness: on stop-ridges 35mm,Weight: 444.03 gms
Description: Developed stop-ridge; blade decorated on both sides with an incised line parallel to each edge; cutting edge blunted; slight raised rib on each side surface, just below line of stop-ridges.
Publications: AC, 1940, pp. 84 f