Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,4281.22,deposited on loan by Mr. C. H. Butcher, 1922
Site: England, essex,havering (near),about 1883
Parish: Havering (near)
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1883
Length (mm): 164
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 31
Weight (g): 447
Patina: Polished dark green - lighter green corrosive patina where pocked.
Surface: Smooth, except blade, which is badly pocked and broken.
Other: Length: 163.5mm; Width: edge 52.5mm; middle 24.5mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: 30.5mm; 27.5mm; 9mm; 24mm,Weight: 446.51 gms
Associations: From a hoard of Palstaves.
Description: the wings are not quite vertical. Wings are chipped on underside. Septum is fluted - less distinct on reverse.
Remarks: Similar to the example found at Harston, near Cambridge (Evans, fig. 60)