Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England, cambridgeshire,swaffham bulbeck,in the fen.,1860
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Swaffham Bulbeck
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1860
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 382
Patina: Dark brown patina with here and there an orange shine. Also dark and bright green.
Surface: Dull, encrusted in places.
Other: Width: edge 70mm; middle 23mm; butt 21mm,Thickness: 32mm; 12.5mm
Description: Stop ridge and semi-elliptical ornament below the stop with vertical rib running down the middle of it.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 30, catalogue lost.,Bronzes 70, Numbers to be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology.",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue May 1884.