Object: PALSTAVE/CHISEL
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Society of Antiquities Collection, B.18,presented 1860 by Sudlow Roots, esq. from the collection of his father William Roots - no.6
Site: England,Greater London,River Thames,Kingston
Discovery context: river
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 120.7
Width (mm): butt 19
Edge (mm): 31.5
Thickness (mm): max. B. fg. 19.5,max. T sep. 3.7,min. B. st. 14.5
Patina: dark chocolate brown;  v. little speckling to darker colour; some yellow to orange staining
Surface: attached material: v. small spots of concretion
Other: Top left corner (in box labelled NGR) says “c. TQ 17” and on the next line, “ 68” (aligned under the “17”). Is this a grid ref?  Bottom right of card: Rec. “SN Feb’79”; DF “c”; Source “MV”; old cards “1” and ticks in boxes labelled PIF, AFI, SI & CI
Associations: 7b Group
Description: Typology" butt notch prob. orig. feature;arched shoulder on one side of bl/fg. =  just hump on other side; stops dip from flanges - asym. & irreg.; flattened Fg. bases provide beginning of"v" enclosed depression on one face - virt. none on rev.; fairly crisp sep. angles, thin rounded/flattened fg. crests; fgs. skew to body,Manufacture: cg. fls. remain as cracks - one v. off central; Deliberately dimpled bl. tips; some prob. hmks. on sides; moulding irregularities in one sep. - prob. cg.flaw; v. sl. flattening of top of fgs. - tending to tipping; hollow ground e. bev. with suggestion of lesser bevel above,Condition: sl. bent & twisted along line of body - pres. dam.; edge intact & sharp
Publications: a) P.S.A.1 I, 1843-9, 21,Arch XXX, 1844, 491,c)P.S.A.2 I, 1859-61, 83 no. 6
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink inscr: 'B18'; loose hand-printed label;loose tag label - roots orig.