Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2377,Labelled: "J. Warren, 1806"
Site: England, norfolk,stibbard,1806,on the drawing a note is added that the hoard was found in 1837 and see also 1927-2552."
Hoard: yes
Parish: Stibbard
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1806
Length (mm): 107
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 150
Patina: Dirty
Other: Width: edge 43mm; centre 20mm; butt 20mm,Thickness: centre 6mm; 18mm,Weight: 149.65 gms
Associations: Hoard of about 70 castings of small palstaves and 10 spear-heads (Class IIIA).
Description: Casting ridges untrimmed. Butt imperfect, Y-shaped ribs below stop-ridge. From same mould as 1927.2376.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Impls., p.84, Fig. 69 (Hoard No. 8),Arch. Inst. Norwich, p. xxvi.,Greenwell and Parker Breiois, Archaelogia LXI 462.
Remarks: Other specimens in British Museum (8), Norwich (5), Cambridge (1).