Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Liverpool Museum,9.8.98.74
Site: England, Cheshire?,chester?,(northgate st?)
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 170
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 482
Surface: Badly made + pitted with steam holes. Corroded and encrusted. Light green decomposition products line the steam cavities.
Other: Width; edge 46mm; butt 20mm,Thickness: 13mm; 33mm,Weight: 481.95 gms
Description: Edge is worn round. Raised rib down blade.
Remarks: Dr. Newstead informs that this was probably not found at Chester; he refused on this ground to purchase it for the Grosvenor Museum, Chester.