Object: Palstave
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Received 1925,in exchange from Hull Municipal Museum,from Windsor Museum
Site: England, berks,windsor,great park,1864
Parish: Windsor
District: Windsor And Maidenhead
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1864
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 67
Thickness (mm): 18
Weight (g): 255
Patina: Apple green
Surface: Blistered in places by corrosion (see side view)
Other: Width: edge 67mm; middle 23mm,Weight: 255.15 gms
Associations: One of 4 fragments from same place (hoard) + 1 specimen in B.M.
Description: Traces of raised ornament. Cast marks. Edge has been ground, but much broken. Fracture at top shows same impure composition as the companion piece analysed by Prof. Desch.
Publications: Handbook of the Museum of the Albert Institute. Says 200 yards from Bishopsgate in the Park. Windsor Road.