Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Winchester Museum,Dale Collection (16),Stolen from Winchester Museum before 1937,Not yet recovered (May 1939)
Site: England, hampshire,near southampton,pear tree green,1898,2 ft. deep
Parish: Southampton
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 147
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 22
Weight (g): 315
Patina: Dark patina almost all scaled off showing light green.
Surface: Pitted and corroded. Edge chipped. Part of flange chipped off.
Other: Width: edge 55mm; centre 23mm; butt 19mm,Thickness: 22mm; 7mm,Weight: 315.39 gms
Associations: Part of hoard of 41 or more palstaves. 2 in B.M.
Description: Broken across centre and mended.
Publications: Proc. Soc. Ant. XVII, 1898,Proc. H.F.C., 1898