Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 1875,12 29,1
Site: England, Kent, chatham,dockyard
Parish: Chatham
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 75 67
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 146
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 23
Weight (g): 476
Patina: Brown
Surface: Slightly pitted.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: butt 25mm; blade 63mm
Description: Slight side and stop ridges. Edges of blade broken. Marks of casting. Slight shoulder on each side.
Publications: R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 99, 253, Pl V no. 10,Evans, B. Imps. 74,V.C.H. Kent I 335
Remarks: From the excavation for the extension of the Chatham Dockyard. Presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.,AOK,CI