Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carlyle-Clarke, Mr. G - private cottage in Wood, Clenston, Blandford, Dorset,Found in a box of old family possessions and believed to have belonged to Mr. Carlyle-Clarke's Great Grandfather, who was always a Dorset man - thus possibly found in the Blondford area.
Site: England, unprovenanced,alt site: dorset, blandford area
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 47
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 325
Surface: Fragments of milky green patina survive in septum, but much pocked and some scratched off; rest of surface "cleaned" leaving patches of bright gold amongst brown/green pocks and depression,Attached Material: Fawn soil in septum end hollows
Description: Dimensions,EL 104.0 mm; Wbl 47.3mm; Wbwek 29mm; Blp. 5.5mm; Bstop 31.0mm; max T.sep 6.9mm; wt, 324.8 gms,Typology: blade with hexogonal with remnants of midridge on either face; rounded end to sep. leads into shallow swallow hole,Manufacture: low rounded bump in parts for eg. fl.; slight skew in fg. alignment relative to blade; slight blade and tip hollow; edge bevel developed high on blade, which is short - possibly much reworked.,Condition: blunted edge bright gold; deep edge bevel mottled gold and brown smooth surface, also bases of pock holes - modern filing, but approximately in ancient form; haft break mixed gold, brown and green corrosion, almost certain line of one weak
Remarks: Context: Undocumented,Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF C; SI,Ext: RSO no. 1; CI,Rec. SN, July 80,Source: Sb. A