Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, British Museum,POA 87
Site: unprovenanced,alt site: burringham moor; burringham; humberside
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 165
Edge (mm): 48
Weight (g): 486
Other: Text describing circumstance of find appears to be unfinished.
Description: Dimensions: L 165mm; Wbl. 48; Bst 34.5mm; Wt. 485.8 gms
Publications: a) BM Donatious Catalogue for 1756-1840, Dec. 14, 1811,b)Promoeval Antiquities - MS vol. (Soc. of Antiquaries), p.168.,c) Davey 1973, 94, pl. XII
Remarks: Circumstances: this was an unprovenanced and unmarked piece in the collections where it was marked in a haft (modern) registered as 1938.3-5.5; it could conceivably be that acquired from Sir Joseph Bawks in 1811, Dec, 14 (a) described as "found in the Isle of Axholm", but this relies on the supposition that the latter was one of the "Isle of Axholm hoard illustrated in Bank's folios (b) and that Banks had obtained at least the palstave therefrom from Mr. G. Stovin (c) the,Context: possibly 1a. Hoard,Label/Markings: formerly marked 1938.3-5.5 by mistake from the haft it was mounted in.