Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: C.N.L. Tollemache Scott,Amprey St. Peter, Glox.,1929: He died 1938 & palstave passed to his daughter, Countess of Dysart.
Site: England, leicestershire,market bosworth,said to have been found on the site of the battle.
Parish: Market Bosworth
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 166
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 509
Patina: Very dark brown patina
Surface: Smooth, but pitted in several places.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: blade 69.5mm; butt 23mm,Thickness: on stop-ridge 32.5mm
Description: Developed stop-ridge; blade decorated on both sides with raised edges and central rib; single loop; cutting edge slightly burred.
Remarks: Mr. Scott is Lord of the Manor of Bosworth and the palstave was given to him by an old retairne, who had found it years previously and the exact provenance is unknown.