Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, Tower Armoury,Tr. 106
Site: England, suffolk,bamfield,near castle yard
Parish: Bamfield
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TM 4030 7339
Year of discovery: 1839
Length (mm): 145
Width (mm): 54
Edge (mm): 22
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 354
Surface: Large areas gold, rest dull brown; except small patch of ruddy brown and spots green
Description: Dimensions: L 144.5mm; We 54mm; Wbt 21.5mm; Wst 22.5mm; Bst 30.3mm; max T sep 11.7 mm; max H fg 7.8mm; Bfg 24.8mm; Wt 354.3 gms,Typology: long rib does not expand significantly within shield; slight side flanges on blade; stop prominent and very bowed in plan; poor side bars; butt end slightly rounded,Manufacture: hammer rippling on blade sides and faces - latter may have been in broad chevron formation; Cg. fl. well removed esp. on blade; good edge bevel on one face, diffuse on opp,Condition: edge very jagged and blunt
Publications: See context card.
Remarks: Circumstances: found in March 1839,Labels/Markings: white ink CX2/361; large rect. sepia adhesive label: 106