Object: Palstave
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hancock, Frederick - private (1979(,'Annada Coins', The Arches, Charing Cross
Site: England, Kent, faversham,brenley corner
Parish: Faversham
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TR 01 61
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 45
Width (mm): 20
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 90
Surface: Dull brown to pale green dry surface - little rough
Associations: 8. Single Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 44.5mm; min W. 20.2mm; Bst. (max) 24mm; T sep end 8.5mm; Wt 90.25 gms,Typology: rounded rep. angles, near rect. sep. end; long pendant triangular hollows - deep with approx. 'V' section; waisting to bl. just below st.; broad rounded st. top.,Manufacture: variable stump of cg. flash; two hollows in one side prob. cg. flaws.,Condition: haft break sl. irreg. sur. and anc.; bl. break also anc. but fairly smooth - poss. not snapped/broken; v. small scratch at either break revealing v. silvery metal colour,Attached Material: pockets of pale fawn soil - plus little chalky? material
Publications: a) Mime-Walker - pers. comm.
Remarks: Circumstances: Apparently recovered using a metal detector, c. 3 years earlier, by F. Hancock himself. From a 'Roman Villa site', not buried under a view road at Brenley Corner (a); a bierra bar (DF) submitted at the same time from the site, was said not to be in direct association; a 'handful' of other material was mentioned, presumably from the same site;,Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (S), SI,Ext. CI,rec. SN, July 79,Source Sb. A,Sub. Inf. P. Mime-Walker 7/3/79