Object: Looped palstave
Classification: PALSTAVE (Looped, flanged)
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Southend Museum, Prittwell Priory: 375/5
Site: essex,southchurch,thorpe hall brickfield.,found while digging brickearth. other bronze implements from the same depth at same brickfield. 1929
Discovery context: brick field
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1929
Length (mm): 147.3
Width (mm): 30.5
Thickness (mm): 27.9
Surface: Heavily corroded with bronze disease.
Composition: Bronze.
Other: Measurements originally in inches: Length '5.8', Width '1.2"', Thickness '1-1',5 cross section drawings of palstave on reverse with text at stop-ridge drawing "Section across stop ridge and flanges.",Loop appears intact.,Strong midrib connected to stop running most of the way down face of blade but ending before edge.,Butt broken and missing with angular break in septum.
Associations: No definite association, but possible part of a leaf-shaped sword.
Description: Looped palstave, with median ridge:flanges -3' maximum depth at stop-ridge.Section at edge of blade ///: thickness along edge XXX
Publications: Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. 19 (N.S) pp.311-13,Illus.
Remarks: Prepared by: D.G. Macleod, Assistant-in-Charge, Prittlewell Priory Museum. June 1958.