Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology Cambridge,Transferred from Fitzwilliam Museum 1887
Site: England, cambridgeshire,chatteris
Parish: Chatteris
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 164
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 29
Weight (g): 420
Surface: Smooth and shiny generally. Metal showing highly polished except for circular holes where it has got corroded and one bad patch where the ornament should be on one side. Corroded places are dust colour.
Other: Width: edge 70mm; middle 24mm; butt 23mm,Thickness: 28.5mm; 10mm
Description: Stop ridges and semi-elliptical ornament with well defined median ridge running through it and down blade.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 35, catalogue lost,Bronzes 108. Numbers to be found in catalogue called "Museum of archaeology"