Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,presented by J.W. Clark Esq., 6th March 1876
Site: England, cambridgeshire,burwell fen,1876
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1876
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 484
Patina: Brown patina and some green.
Surface: Dull. Corroded between the wings - base damaged.
Other: Width: edge 55mm; 21.5mm butt; middle 25mm,Thickness: 32mm; 12mm
Description: Looped with median ridge running down towards the blade from below the stop.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 53, no catalogue found yet.,Bronzes 63. Numbers to be found in a catalogue named "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue, May 1884, 130.