Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London Tower Armoury,Tr. 109
Site: England, suffolk,bramfield,near castle yard
Parish: Bramfield
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TM 4030 7339
Year of discovery: 1839
Length (mm): 143
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 59
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 400
Surface: Most covered in dry pallid green pocked surface; remnants of dark brown and green peat; gold flecking; modern file marks on one side.
Description: Dimensions: L 143.2mm; EWe 59mm; Wst 23.7mm; Bst 30.6mm; maxTsep 12.3mm; max H fg. 7mm; B fg 25.5mm; Wt. 400.3 gms,Typology: very tout and ugly rib; sly ribs defining shield enclosing sl. hollows; 4 ribs at end of sep.; prom. stop bowed in plan; thick blade,Manufacture: blade tip hollow in extant-tip; thin cg. fl. remains only within loop,Condition: loop broken; edge blunt and serrated; one tip lost - in ant? butt very battered,Attached material: dull brown soil in sep.
Publications: See context card.
Remarks: Circumstances: Found in March 1839,Labels/Markings: white ink: CXZ/364; large rect. adhesive label: 109