Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Southend-on-Sea Museum, 1929
Site: England, essex[southend-on-sea,southchurch,thorpe hall brickfield (about 1000 yds. e. of thorpe bay rly station. <.m.s.),3 ft. 6 in. deep in brick-earth containing fragments of bone & charcoal,23rd february. 1929.
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1929
Length (mm): 146
Edge (mm): 52
Weight (g): 474.86
Other: 4 cross section drawings of palstave on reverse.,Loop is intact but appears heavily encrusted.,Butt damaged, with large angular portion missing.,Side ridges? appears to be a large section missing on one face of blade, either side ridge or lack of encrustment.
Associations: 1 leaf-shaped sword with transitional hilt, 1 fragment of sword blade.
Description: Looped, Sides untrimmed. Central ridge down faces.
Remarks: The brickfield is worked to a depth of 7 ft: beneath the brick earth is ballast & sand. Excavating around the silt produced no additional objects.