Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection,1927-2689,(C.J. Hegan, Esq.)
Site: England, oxfordshire (oxon),cowley road, leopold street,1882,found during drainage works on site of tram stables, formerly cowley marsh 1881-2.
Hoard: yes
Parish: Cowley Road
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 179
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 67
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 473
Surface: Rough blue-green oxide.
Other: Width: edge 67mm; centre 27mm; butt 23mm,Thickness: centre 8mm; 29mm,Weight: 473.11 gms
Associations: Hoard of nine palstaves and 1 socketed celt. Evans Collection nos. 2689-90 (palstaves) and 2691 (socketed celt) found 1882 belong to the same hoard as 7 unlooped palstaves found 1881.
Description: 3 flat ribs below stop-ridge. Casting mould flaw on one side.
Publications: E.T. Leeds, Proc. Soc. Antiq., xxviii (1916), pp. 147-152, figs, 2, 3,Archl Survey Oxon, Archaeologia LXXI, 251 (+refs)
Remarks: The unlooped palstaves of this hoard are all from the same mould as one found in Burgesses Meadow, Oxford: other specimens from same mould have been found at Rycote, near Thame, Oxford; Chislet, Kent; near Vernham's Down, Hants.