Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hull Museum No. 169
Site: England, ?kent,no locality
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 442
Patina: Mostly a dark brownish-green patina; lighter green in the pits. Golden bronze on one face by the cutting edge and elsewhere, where the patina has been filed off.
Surface: Fairly smooth, but somewhat pitted.
Description: Cutting edge chipped and rough, with both ends damaged. Two short converging ribs below stop ridge, which join and extend towards the cutting edge. Symmetrical and regular flanges. The butt-end of the implement is broken off (in ancient time).
Remarks: Purchased by Hull Museum in Sussex, and said to have been part of a hoard found in Kent. With the purchase was a forged socketed celt, said to have been found with the others, and this makes the find place of the whole lot uncertain. The other members of this alleged hoard are Flanged Celt (Hull Museum 170) and Palstave (Looped) (Hull Museum No. 171)