Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2611
Site: wales,brecknockshire,brecon,hay,1871 or 2
Parish: Brecon
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 177
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 68
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 554
Patina: Rusty light brown patina.
Surface: Patches of blue oxide appearing through patina.
Other: Width: edge 68mm; centre 28mm; butt 23mm,Thickness: centre 9mm; 32mm,Weight: 553.85 gms
Description: Deep U-shaped depression below stop-ridge. Slight transverse ridge on sides well below level of stop-ridge. Deep groove down across corner of blade on one face.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. p. 77