Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hull Museum, No. 171
Site: England, ? Kent, no locality
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 354
Patina: Dark brown and green; a patch of bronze colour on butt, where patina has been cleaned off
Surface: Rough and "lumpy" rear cutting-edge; and on the flanges; otherwise smooth, except for the cuts on the surface of the blade.
Description: Cutting edge chipped and blunt; on each face of the blade are a number (?three) of ribs running down towards the cutting edge: those have almost disappeared except close to the stopridge. Very prominent stopridge. On each face between the flanges are three ribs, which appear to be more or less in the same sharpit[?] line as those on the blade. Flanges much worn down and broken. Butt broken off. There are traces of a flaw in the metal here, which probably caused this fracture: numbers of scratches and cuts near the cutting edge. Loop rather large and prominent.
Remarks: Purchase by the Hull Museum in Sussex and said to have been part of a hoard found in Kent. With the purchase was a forged socketed celt said to have been found with the others, and this makes the find  place uncertain. The other members of this alleged hoard are Flanged Celt (Hull Museum 170) and Palstave (Hull Museum 169).