Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: King's Lynn Museum, A.266
Site: England, norfolk,massingham
Parish: Massingham
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TF 79 22
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 132
Width (mm): 41
Surface: Little dark green patina; some areas rubbed to burnished dark brown, most flaked and pocked to dusty pale green surface; bright orange ? soil in one septum and under loop. Edge sharp, nick possible from use or in manufacturing stage; butt nearly all broken surface - two very thin lips prob. original flats thick top.
Other: Length; 132.25mm,Width: 41.25mm
Description: traces of casting flash; bevelled under-stop; 3  converging ribs decorating - central one seems broader; converge higher on reverse leading into extended point
Remarks: PIF, CI, SI,SN 31 Jan. 78