Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Pugh, Mr. H.W. - Private (1982),New House Farm, Monkhopton,Bridgnorth; Salop WV16 6UT
Site: England, shropshire,upton cressett,lodge coppice
Parish: Upton Cressett
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SO 6559 9098
Year of discovery: 1981
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 456
Surface: Very yellow-green patina, smooth and shiny, partially intact; much flaked to dry and dusty bluey-green surface - parts look active
Associations: Single Find
Description: Dimensions: L162mm; EWe 57.5mm; Wbt 24mm; Wst 26mm; maxBfg33.5mm; maxTsep 11mm; Lsep 68 and 68.5mm; Wt 456.4 gms,Typology: Septum floor slightly concave in cross-sec.; evidence for low bar on either side at head of blade; blade sec. very rectangular,Manufacture: slight dimpling in patina on one fg. side - from casting;trace of cg. flash,Condition: c.e. completely blunt from loss in corrosion; butt also chipped; recent scoremarks run through shield on one face.,Attached Material: number of areas of pale fawn soil: more limited patches of dull brown 'skin'
Remarks: Found after ploughing on the surface of a field in April 1981 by the farmer who was walking the field; the field, ploughed annually, was only first ploughed in 1978, having previously been coppice.