Object: PALSTAVE
Completeness: broken
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: WINCHESTER, City Museum, 103.5,given by Capt. H.W. Murray, Weeke Cottage, Winchester. 28/5/18.,old museum no. 8
Site: hants, twyford, colden common
Parish: Twyford
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): 53
Edge (mm): 53
Other: 3 cross section drawings of palstave fragment on reverse.,Almost all of object above stop missing, 2 slight nubs of flanges above stop still extant.,Shield device below stop with single U-shaped curved rib attached to stop ridge.,Edge quite damaged, large jagged chunck missing from one corner to about halfway across edge.  Other corner missing in a cleaner, straight shear.,Blade widens fairly evenly below stop, widening increases closer to edge, likely edge width may have reach into the 70mm range.
Associations: hoard of 13 pieces, 5 surviving. (rest stolen in 1937)
Remarks: See also 103.1-4