Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2571
Site: England, devonshire,crediton,1898
Parish: Crediton
County: Devon
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 174
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 545
Patina: Grey
Other: Width: edge 60mm; centre 28mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: 9mm; 40mm,Weight: 545.3 gms
Associations: Found with another palstave and 2 dirks (Nos. 2572-4)
Description: V-shaped groove below stop-ridge. Transverse ridges on sides. Notch in butt.
Publications: E.T. Leeds, Antiquity, II, 351
Remarks: From same mould as Dawlish, No. 1927-2570.