Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hull Museum, No. 172
Site: England, cambridgeshire,holme,(7 1/2 m. s of peterborough)
Parish: Holme
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 403
Patina: Golden-bronze colour, with a thin speckly black patina, which is rather thicker and less patchy in the depressions on the blade and between the flanges.
Surface: Smooth and in excellent condition.
Description: Cutting edge blunt and slightly turned over in parts; elongated depression below stop ridge on both faces; both flanges rather unevenly formed, the space between them ends at the stop ridge with a sudden small depression, more marked on one face than on the other. Butt thick, irregular, and with signs of hammering.
Remarks: SI, CI