Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection: A Fitz Herbert Wright Esq.,Aldercar Hall, Langley Mill Derbyshire
Site: scotland,peebleshire,biggar (4 miles se of ouarter in kilbucko),found on the open moor in 1896 (by mr. a. f.wright)
Parish: Bigger
County: South Lanarkshire
Country: Scotland
Year of discovery: 1896
Length (mm): 163
Width (mm): 34
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 425
Surface: Top faces and sides are slightly pitted by corrosion, but the bottom is fairly clean.
Composition: (Analysis) Copper 89.7; Tin 7.5; Antimony 1.2; Lead 1.0; Zinc 0.5; Iron - trace
Other: Width: edge 48mm; middle 34mm; butt 21mm,Thickness: 35mm; 8mm,Weight: 425.25 gms
Description: The dividing line of the mould is plainly visible and there are hammer and file (?) marks at the cutting edge.
Remarks: This was found quite by chance and was lying fully exposed. There were some small mounds in the vicinity apparently artificial, but it is not know whether they have ever been examined, or whether they still exist.