Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: c/o F.M. Underhill,Loxley, Greenfell Road,Maidenhead
Site: England, ?berkshire,the workman who owns it (may 1937) is very vague about its locality; it probably comes from berkshire of the border counties of berkshire.
Discovery context: building work
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 356
Patina: Green and brown
Surface: Pitted
Description: Very bad casting; both blade and butt are asymmetrical, loop represented by two protuberances; stop ridge and flanges on one side of butt fairly well developed, but on the other side one flange is non-existent and the other very rudimentary, and the stop is small. Casting flaw near end of butt. The blade is a sort of irregular oval in section.