Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Unknown - sold by,Seaby Coins and Medals (sold be) Audley House, 11 Margaret Street, W1N 8AT
Site: wales,carmartheshire (dyfed),llansteffan,apparently found in 1923
Discovery context: auction
Parish: Llansteffan
Country: Wales
Grid reference: c. SN 34 11
Year of discovery: 1923
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 13
Surface: Remnants of a purply-brown patina, mainly pocked, flaked and rubbed off to a dull golden surface with pock-scars, in places with green tinge.
Associations: 9. Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: L 161.5mm; We 52.7mm; Wbt 25.3mm; Bst. 32mm; Blp 8.6mm; maxTsep 12.5mm,Typology: trident design; diffuse indentation over part of blade, dk brown, likely original hammermarks.,Manufacture: merest suggestion of blade tip hollows associated  with high working of edge; rounded base of cg. fl. quite broad; irreg. pretrusions of metal between prongs of trident on reverse - probably cg. flaws,Condition: part of c.e. nicked - ? corrosion damage, rest sharp from surface loss; nick in one fg. bright gold and recent; various scoremarks probably associated with modern interference; slight lipping at butt probably from modern interference - golden smoothed tip.