Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England, cambridgeshire,reach fen,1871
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 168
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 72
Thickness (mm): 28
Weight (g): 435
Patina: Brown and green patina some bright green on corroded parts.
Surface: Rough in places and corroded. Blade is smooth.
Other: Width: edge 72mm; middle 24mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: 27.5mm; 10mm
Description: Stop ridge and semi-elliptical ornament below the stop, a slight median ridge runs through it and half down the blade.