Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex Park, Birchington, Kent,4/11/2/04
Site: England, Kent, birchington hoard,southend brickfield,11th feb. 1904
Parish: Birchington
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1904
Length (mm): 166
Width (mm): 57
Surface: Rough. corroded.
Other: Length: 165.5 mm
Description: Broad blade. Shield-shaped ornament with slight ribs in shield which is rib outlined with long rib below. Low flanges. Blade and flanges crumbled away in places.
Publications: Ant. Journ. IV.2,R.F. Jessup, Kent, 100, 252