Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carisbrooke Museum. 6. F.,acquired from the Ryde Museum 1915.6.
Site: England, (isle of wight).,ryde.,st john's park.,found in laying the foundation of leavington house.,1858
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Ryde
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1858
Length (mm): 159
Edge (mm): 60
Weight (g): 403
Other: 3 cross-section drawings of palstave on reverse.,Loop is intact, centred slightly below stop ridge. Rear base (butt side) of loop is longer and thicker than other base.,Butt heavily damaged, portion missing in angular tear.,2 short rounded midribs just below stop.,Stop ridge fairly well pronounced.,Septum floor somewhat rounded.,Flanges end slightly before butt.,Blade widens to edge.,Edge mostly flat, but slightly crescentic.
Associations: It is part of a hoard of 12; the present abode of three of these is uncertain.
Description: Imperforate loop.
Publications: Lockhart C., Guide to the Isle of Wight (1870) p.36.,Wilkins Dr., History of the Isle of Wight (1859) p.52.