Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1882 No. 4, given by E.D. Mathews, contractor.
Site: England,  oxfordshire, cowley, tramway stables, leopold street, cowley road
Parish: Cowley
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 177
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 265
Weight (g): 476
Associations: Part of a hoard of nine palstaves and a socketed Celt., 1881 198 (purchased), `881 3-8 given by E.D. Mathews; 1881 19B Length 178, width 68, thickness 27, weight 486.72, 1882 3 Length 177, width 64, thickness 28, weight 460.60, 1882 5 Length 173, width 64, thickness 27, weight 445.34, 1882 7 Length 166, width 56, thickness 28, weight 402.70, The above are evidently from the same mould as 1882 No. 4.
Remarks: All are very much unidired. The all have an excrescence on one side which seems to be a joint of mould or jet.