Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2567
Site: England, cornwall,penzance (neighborhood of),1880
Parish: Penzance
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1880
Length (mm): 137
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 336
Surface: Yellow, with purple iridescent patches.
Other: Width: edge 64mm; centre 46mm; butt 21mm,Thickness: centre 9mm; 30mm,Weight: 335.75 gms
Description: Deep grooves below stop-ridge making 3 ribs. Edge crescentic, hammered.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 81