Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Trill, Mr. E - private No. 1,Pine Lodge, Fairley Park, Ringwood, Hants
Site: England, dorset,alderholt
Parish: Alderholt
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 1073 1190
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 128
Edge (mm): 52
Thickness (mm): 26
Weight (g): 345
Surface: Patches of dark green - olive patina - septum, shield hollow and lower blade; rest flaked and pocked to pale dirty green surface.
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 128mm; EWe 52.3mm; MaxETse 25.5 mm (one corner); maxTsep 7.5mm; Wt 345.35 gms,Typology: curved sep. floor with rounded angles with fgs.; rounded sep.ends with very slight depression crossed by short vertical rib either face; fg. shape lost; st. prob. dipping in centre; shield hollow with deep centre on one blade face, poor surviving hollow on rev.; traces of cutting rib around; swelling on either side at blade top; flat blade faces,Manufacture: Portion of cg. fl. stump preserved in patina on one side; poss. edge bevel angle on corroded reverse face - but obverse flat despite surviving patina; skew between blade edge and sep.,Condition: much damaged - butt and all fg. crests broken pale green surs; as also rev. stop crest and most of blade edge; one blade tip ruddy brown break - recent dipping; most angles lost through deterioration,Attached Material: traces of fawn soil