Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Wales,44.172/3
Site: wales,montgomeryshire,cemmaes,mynydd tal-y-glannan
Parish: Cemmaes
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 165
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 26
Patina: Dark greenish-brown, partly removed, as in other Cemmaes implements.
Surface: Rough, casting seams not completely removed. Butt badly damaged by corrosion.
Other: Width: edge 63mm; middle 24mm; butt 16+mm
Associations: Part of hoard of 19+ palstaves (others in possession of Col. Norton, Welshpool and Chester Museum)
Publications: PW, No. 530,AC, 1902, p.240; 1958,BBCS, 1934, p. 334, 1935, pp.96f
Remarks: This implement was formerly in Glenn Coll., alleged by Glenn (improbably) to have been attributed by previous owners to Hoard found at Holyhead (see AC 1958).