Object: PALSTAVE
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum 1954.40.1
Site: dorset,thorncombe,forde grange,hoskins field
Parish: Thorncombe
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: ST 36 04
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 128
Edge (mm): 58
Other: 3 cross section drawings of palstave on reverse.,Edge somewhat worn and slightly chipped.,Slight side ridges below stop.,Some additional wear below stop, does not appear to have any ornamentation.,Surface is probably pocked and corroded.,Stop ridge appears narrow, not well pronounced, flanges are also shallow or decayed.,Septum has two small holes just above stop ridge.,Butt quite damaged, approx. half missing.,,Entire palstave appears slightly not symmetrical between the two sides. Edge bevel somewhat longer on one side. Flanges appear angular and offset on one side, cf? instead of decay?
Publications: Rowlands 1976, 303 no. 491
Remarks: PI,CI,SI