Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lawley, Mr. Roger - private (1991),91 Richerdon Rd., London SW17 8CH
Site: England, east sussex,wealden district,east dean,birling gap beach
Parish: East Dean
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TV 550,961
Year of discovery: 1991
Length (mm): 169
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 21
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 422
Surface: Totally pocked and lumpy brightish green surface over most; all angles, crests, etc., rubbed to coppery brown and dull gold metal.
Associations: Area Find
Description: Circumstances: Found Saturday, 19 October, 1991 by Mr. Lawley on the bench below Birling Gap. There had been a storm the previous day and the sea was now unusually low. He found the axe wedged between stones (not large boulders) at a point roughly 50m west of the box of the steps and 20-25m from the then sea-line. A second object, seemingly of cast iron and "knuckle duster" like was on the pebbles nearby.,Dimensions: L 168.5mm; EWbt 21mm; Wst 25.7mm; EWe 37.3mm; Bst 30.7mm; maxTsep. 11.7mm; Tbt 5.0 mm; wt. 422 gms,Typology: broad stout midrib with trident at top; slight sep. floor,Manufacture: vestige of e. bev.,Condition: edge very rounded, as also loop stumps.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,Rec. SN Nov. 91,Source: Sb. A.