Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Received 1925,in exchange from Hull Municipal Museum,from Windsor Museum
Site: England, berkshire,windsor,great park,1864
Parish: Windsor
District: Windsor and Maidenhead
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1864
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 54
Thickness (mm): 25
Weight (g): 255
Patina: Deep green, lustrous in places and in others deeply corroded. Patina on one side cleaned off for examination of surface. Colour red bronze.
Composition: Cooper 78.79; Tin 16.49; Nickel .49; Lead .09; Iron trace; Zinc Nil; Sulphur .68 = 96.54 + oxide. (Analysis by Prof. C. H. Desch, Sheffield University 12th Oct. 1921.
Other: Width: edge 54mm; middle 22mm,Weight: 255.15 gms
Associations: One of 4 pieces from same place (hoard) + 1 specimen in B.M.
Description: Where broken the metal shows a dull red slag like appearance. Full of "blow holes". Bronze of poor quality and very brittle (owing to amount of oxygen and sulphur). Probably never used. Edge thick and un-ground. Traces of ornament below stop.
Publications: Handbook of the Museum of the Albert Institute, says 200 yds from Bishopsgate in the Park. Windsor Road.