Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lewes, East Sussex Schools Museum Service,(X22.1965),E,purchase from RT Clough, Stonleigh House, Utley, Keighley, Yorks - Aug. 1965, cat. no. 5
Site: unprovenanced
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 151
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 9
Surface: Little exposed black matt patina; much concealed with fir green granular textured deposit, more lumpy in one sep. and pale green here.
Description: Dimensions: L 151.3mm; EWe 43.3mm; Wbl waist 21.9mm; B st 25.4mm; T sep 9.0mm; Tbt 4.5mm (approx),Typology: parts of blade angles tending towards sligh ribs; central rib on crest of angled blade; reverse one less rib-like, more a ridge; fg. crests rounded but quite thin; stops slightly bowed; sep. side angles straight and crisp, sep. floor flat,Manufacture: cg. fl. mainly a marked step - attesting mislocation of valves, on right-hand sides a more gentle concave drop, little lipping and few hammer marks; butt end broken surface from jet-snapping; no hammer marks evident on blade edge - quite probably not sharpened.,Condition: edge mostly irreg. and not sharp; blade tip break dark brown - possibly recent.,Attached Material: Yellowy-fawn soil embedded - mainly in sep., plus spot of more orange ?sandy matrix
Remarks: Context: 9 Undocumented,Labels/Markings: circ. stuck-on label: E