Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2563
Site: England, cambridgeshire,burwell,burwell fen,1873
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1873
Length (mm): 107
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 264
Patina: Brown-green.
Other: Width; edge 50mm; centre 28mm; butt 25mm,Thickness: 9mm; 30mm,Weight: 263.65 gms
Description: Shield on faces: on one divided by short median rib rising from lower border towards ridge: "on the other there are 5 ribs instead of one within the ornament." (Evans, p.83).  Slight transverse ridge on sides below stop-rridge.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. pp. 82-3, Fig. 65