Object: Double Looped Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Reading Museum ALXXV,Presented by J. Tamill in 1891 (see note below)
Site: England, oxfordshire (oxon),garsington
Parish: Garsington
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 163
Edge (mm): 37
Weight (g): 425
Surface: Good deal of pitting.
Other: Width: cutting edge 37-38mm,Weight: 425.3 gms
Associations: Perhaps a socketed celt? See below.
Description: Moderate condition. Ridging worn.
Publications: A drawing of this has been prepared for the new volume of VCH of Oxon: Leeds is writing the chapter on the Bronze Age in VCH; he may have some notes on its discovery.,Archaeologia LXXI, 1921, p. 227-265 (esp. p. 243),OGS Cawford: Proc. Soc. Antiq. XXIV, p. 48,Antiq. Journ. XVII, p. 63-69.
Remarks: This together with a socketed celt and a miscellaneous collection of later date, were presented by J. Tamill in 1891. The only information given in the entry is that the whole collection was found at Garsington.