Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scarborough Museum, January 1924
Site: england; yorkshire; e. riding; driffield; from barrrow called "the kings mount" (or else in "the king's field") 1870 (prior to)
Parish: Driffield
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 169
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 369
Patina: black patina appears to have been oiled
Other: Width: edge 41; middle 32; butt 23,  Thickness: 6; 23; 16; 7,  Weight; 368.5 grms
Associations: Other finds in barrow now dispersed.
Description: Edge recently ground.
Publications: Figured in "Antiquities Journal" Vol. III, p.371, 1923.,  J.J. Butler, Paleohistoria IX (1963) 70, where it is said to be a typical "common N. European palstave."