Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2560
Site: England, cambridgeshire,bottisham,bottisham lode,1866
Parish: Bottisham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1866
Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 272
Patina: Yellow-brown
Other: Edge: 55mm; centre 24mm; butt 23mm,Thickness: 8mm; 26mm,Weight: 272.18 gms
Description: Butt imperfect. Edge strongly recurved, hammered. Shield on face containing short midrib. Small transverse ridge on side opposite loop below stop-ridge.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 92, Fig. 82