Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London,Society of Antiquaries Collection,B17,(presented 1860 by Sudlow Roots, Esq., from the collection of his father William Roots - no. 5)
Site: England, greater london,river thames,kingston
Discovery context: river
District: Kingston upon Thames
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 17; 68
Year of discovery: 1844
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 73
Thickness (mm): 7
Surface: Dark brown patina - slightly shiny, a little flaking to duller lighter brown surface; very few bright green pocks.
Description: Dimensions: L 149.5mm; We 73mm; Wbt 19.2mm; Bst 27mm; max T sep 7mm; max B fg 26.8mm,Typology: flange crests rounded pointed but flattened at very top creating broad lips on fg. sides there; sep. angles rounded; two very short ribs in hollow in either-sep. end; side fgs on blade tend to have flat tops; very crescentic edge bevel - concave; pinched herring bone ornament on sides and blade faces; hammer marks "bound side decor"; slight skew of fgs. to blade,Manufacture: traces of cg. fl. - thin rib or crack; blade tip hollows - both markedly asym.,Condition: edge very sharp - all intact; notch in butt ancient break - design?,Attached Material: orange staining in parts
Publications: a) P.S.A, I. 1843-9, 21,b) Arch XXX (1844), 491,c) P.S.A., I 1859-61, 82-3, no. 5,
Remarks: Circumstances: See AFI "raised from the Thames at Kingston, where several other warlike weapons and Roman remains were discovered, in 1844."(c); date not necessarily referring to this piece. Roots label identical but qualified 'May 1844',Context: 7b. Group,Labels/Markings: white ink inser. 'B17'; loose label - Root's original; hand painted label