Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, Society of Antiquaries collection B.2,(exhibited by Mr. Tinstall, Nov. 14, 1776 (a)),Labels/Markings: white ink inscr. 'B 2'small sect. s/o label - printed '[...]' s/o label - large rect.
Site: Spain,"found in Spain on a mountain, between Llamas del Mauro & Carcalai, about 12 leagues South of Oviedo, 1767, communicated from Don Diego de Sierra, ...." (a)
Country: Spain
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 205
Width (mm): We 53.2; Wbt 25.4; Bst. 38.2; max. B.lp 16.9
Thickness (mm): max. T sep 14.0
Patina: dark browny green p., v. little begining to deteriorate
Surface: Attached Material: a little white accretion - recent, over label
Description: Typology: neat rib with pellet central on bl. faces & marked side fgs.; rounded stop & fg. crests; sep. floor sl. curved,Manufacture: e. bev. v. diffuse - curved; eg. fl. remains as stumps - sl. off central - more so on sev. side; small perfn. in one fg. - prob. cg. flaw; little dimpling of sur. from moulding; no signs of working on bl. e. - prob. unworked,Condition: e. blunt - partly due to unworked state, but also poss. minimal recent [...] broken sur. at butt top
Publications: a) Lort 1779, 118,b) Loose hand-painted label,c) Minutes of So. A. L. XV, 22
Remarks: PIF,DF: C,Rec.; SR Feb 79,Source: MV