Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Asmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2566
Site: England, cambridgeshire,cambridge (near),1879
Parish: Cambridge
District: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1879
Length (mm): 157
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 65
Thickness (mm): 1
Weight (g): 378
Surface: Dark brown oxide, pitted.
Other: Width: edge 65mm; centre 24mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: 1-27mm,Weight: 377.65 gms
Description: Shield and midrib on face; 2 sharply cut triangular depression flanking midrib below ridge. Sides of haft decorated with hellix design made with a short blunt chisel.
Publications: ?Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. p. 90