Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Kiar, Mr. Stephen - private (1987),Flat 2, 113  Clapham Common North Side, SW4 9SJ,Bought from Fox & Co., Antiquities Catalogue 3, p. 7 - 930/889.
Site: England, norfolk,hockwold,hockwold fen,site rel.: poor
Parish: Hockwold
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 139
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 65
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 374
Surface: Dull greeny brown and maroon textured surface with few small green patches of probable patina on top; some corners gold-flecked, and one broken butt corner extensively hammered causing burring - dull gold; loop stump ends also dull gold.
Description: Dimensions: EL 138.5mm; Wce 65mm; Wst 21mm; Wbt 23.8mm; Tst 28.7mm; maxTsep 12mm; Wt. 373.7 gms,Typology:edge bevel now a little diffuse,Manufacture: slight traces of casting flashes on sides; cavity on reverse side probably a casting flow,Condition: irregular cutting edge,
Remarks: Circumstances: Fox's catalogue states "Hockwold Fen" but this should be accepted with some reserve for the previous entry - a flat axe also listed as Hockwold Fen, is in fact known to be from Little Oulsham.