Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Rev. C. Roberts,South Harting, Sussex,1927
Site: England, west sussex,chichester district,elsted,beacon hill,1909
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Elsted
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 158
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 39
Thickness (mm): 33
Surface: Apparently rather rough. Edge damaged.
Other: Width: edge 39mm; butt 20mm,Thickness: ridge 33mm
Associations: One of a Hoard of 5 found on Beacon Hill, 1909
Description: Four short grooves forming 3 raised ribs below high stop-ridge. Late type.
Publications: P.S.A. 23, 376
Remarks: Sketch on reverse from 4 drawings, shaded, and 2 faces and 2 sides in each of which the measurements differ slightly.