Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,N.C. 342,given by Rev. W. F. Sharp,1867
Site: wales,montgomeryshire,llandrinio,bank of severn near offa's dyke
Parish: Llandrinio
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 149
Edge (mm): 56
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 443
Other: Weight: 443.29 gms
Description: Perforation through butt just above thr stop-ridge, with depression (2) entering the butt-end of blade (from casting process). Yellow bronze; light green patina, good condition except edges of flanges slightly notched.
Remarks: Marked:"On bank of the Severn some miles be...Welshpool, near Offa's Dyke," in another hand "Llandrinio".