Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Public Museum, Gloucester
Site: England, gloucestershire,lydney,3 feet below the surface, 1876
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Lydney
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1876
Length (mm): 152
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 407
Patina: No patina. Bright bronze colour.
Surface: Rough; pitted on edges.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: blade 42mm; butt 24mm; centre 29mm,Thickness: on stop-ridge, 33mm,Weight: *407 gms
Description: Single loop. Good condition. Edge blunted. A small modern baring immediately above stop-ridge.
Remarks: Owing to extension corrosion, this palstave has been treated with the "Rochelle salt" treatment (Lucas).,*A duplicate card, while agreeing with these dimensions gives the weight as 453 gms.