Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ridley, Mr. T - private (1989),13 Gleneagle Rd., Streatham
Site: England, surrey,oxted,jincock's farm
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Oxted
County: Surrey
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 398; 497
Year of discovery: 1988
Length (mm): 147
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 62
Thickness (mm): 24
Weight (g): 343
Surface: Most with shiny dark olive green patina badly pocked in parts and flaked to dry green surface at virtually all of c. edge and butt, plus parts of flange.
Other: Site: Appears to be Pope's Lane, not Road as indicated in the card
Description: Dimensions: L 147mm; We 61.7mm; Wst 21.2mm; Wbt 20.6mm; min T st. 24.1mm; Bfg 26mm; Tsep 8.5mm; Tebev 10mm; wt 342.6 gms,Typology: flanges and stop crests generally rounded; sep. base with gentle profile,Manufacture: cg. flash well removed to sl. bumb except close to butt; firly pronounced blade tip hollows; strong edge bevel with good hammer marks in patina,Condition: c. edge all corrosion damaged - looks intact. Some scoring through patina,Attached material: light fawn soil deposits in sep. end.
Remarks: Circumstances: Found ?Oct. 1988 by Mr. Ridley using a metal detector in field immediately west of a stream and S of Pope's Road approximately opposite of Jincock's Farm (field belongs to Upper Jincooks Farm); found c. 1 foot deep at base of blough soil, lying on one side - the flanges uppermost were seen first.  Field ploughed for the first time just a year ago.,Context: Single find.