Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hereford Museum.,Given by the finder, Mr. Arthur Lewis, The Poocha Farm, Peterchurch.
Site: England, herefordshire,peterchurch,(at or near urishay, about 3m sw by w of peterchurch),near the s.w. corner of urishay common about 200 yards nne of log house during ploughing operations in the "autumn" of 1925,on the poocha farm.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Peterchurch
County: Herefordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: [3 blue dots]
Year of discovery: 1925
Length (mm): 161
Edge (mm): 65
Weight (g): 496.12
Patina: apple green. partly scraped or filed away by finder.
Other: 3 cross section drawings of palstave on reverse.,2 short, angular side ridges below stop.,Small blowhole? from septum in stop on one side.,Septum floor rounded where it expands to flanges, but otherwise fairly flat.,Flanges end slightly before butt.,Butt rounded.,Blade fairly thick, widens slowly then quickens at edge bevel.,Edge tips slightly flared, edge crescent-shaped.
Description: Perfect. but for a few slight dents in edge.
Publications: R.S. Gavin Robinson, W. Woolhope Club, 1933-5, 57.