Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.,Evans Collection, 1927.2562
Site: England, cambridgeshire,burwell,burwell fen,1875
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1875
Length (mm): 152
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 66
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 404
Surface: Yellow dirty patches especially on one face (? has been cleaned). Blade shows patches of corrosion.
Other: Width: edge 66mm; centre 25mm; butt 25mm,Thickness: centre 7mm; 28mm,Weight: 403.71 gms
Description: Shield on faces containing median ridge. Lateral stops.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 79