Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology Cambridge,pres. by the Master Fellows of St. Johns College, Cambridge, 1889
Site: England, Kent, birchington,epple bay,1858
Parish: Birchington
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1858
Length (mm): 168
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 29
Weight (g): 483
Patina: Several shades of green.
Surface: Very rough pitted and corroded
Other: Length: 167.5mm,Width: edge 58mm; middle 24.5mm; butt 21mm,Thickness: 29mm; 11.5mm
Description: Stop ridge. Cast marks showing. Vertical rib running down the blade and through the semi-elliptical ornament below the stop. Above the stop there are 5 or 6 grooves starting from the top and loosing themselves half way up.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 42, Cataliogue lost