Object: Palstave
Classification: Hoard
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Guermonprez Museum,Bognor
Site: England, sussex,bognor,marshall estate, near nyewood lane,found in road-making, 2 ft. 6 in. deep below surface of an old meadow, once marshy.,1925
Parish: Bognor Regis
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1925
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Founder's Hoard of 58 palstaves and fragments of others in over 90 prices: total weight c. 30[]
Description: PTO, for records of fragments, too shapeless for drawing.,No. 51; Blade end 90mm long; edge 45mm; very spongy and corroded.,No. 53; do. L. 68mm; W 45mm; Heavy lump of corrosion. No marking.,No. 56; do. L 79mm; W 40mm; Heavy lump of corrosion? V on face. Irregular [...],No. 55; do. L 79mm; W 45mm; Slight corrision; No. markings.,No. 58; ?do. Length about 60mm;,No. 59; do.Photo,No. 60-62; Unrecognisable lumps,No. 63-66; Shaft ends; L. 55mm; 63mm; 44mm; 55mm,No. 68-69;  Small central lumps, with loops.,No. 71-72; Sharp ends,No. 74; L. 83mm,No. 75; L. 85mm Loop? Very bad condition,No. 76,No. 78; with loop,No. 80-82; 84, 86; unrecognisable lumps,No. 83, 85, 87-89; Laminated lump of no definite shape.,No. 90; Do. but larger, wt. about 3 oz.
Publications: Sussex Arch. Coll. LXVI 225-231, figs.