Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2690,(C.J. Hegan)
Site: England, oxfordshire,cowley,cowley road,leopold street,found during drainage works on site of tram stables,formerly cowley marsh, 1881-2
Discovery context: drain cutting
Parish: Cowley
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1881
Length (mm): 176
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 614
Patina: Slight turquoise-green patina above: rough blue-green oxide below.
Other: Width: edge 64mm; centre 29mm; butt 27mm,Thickness: centre 8mm; 34mm,Weight:614.39 gms
Associations: Found with 8 other palstaves, 1 socketed celt (7 unlooped, 2 looped palstaves, 1 edge only)
Description: 2 vertical grooves below stop-ridge (vestigal trident ornament). Blow-hole at base of diaphragm on one side.
Publications: E.T. Leeds, Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxviii (1916), pp. 147-152, fig 2.,E.T. Leeds, Arch. Survey Oxon, Archaeologia, lxxi, 251 (+ refs)