Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England, norfolk,downham fen,jany. 1859
Parish: Downham
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1859
Length (mm): 161
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 512
Surface: Eaten away in pits in places showing dull brown and light green and some metal. The rest of the surface is as through brightly polished and very smooth.
Other: Thickness: 35mm; 13mm,
Associations: Found with the sickle B27 and palstave.
Description: Looped. Slight median ridge running from below the stop down towards the blade.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes, 56, no catalogue found yet,Bronze Age 60, Numbers to be found in catalogue called Museum of Archaeology,Cambridge Antiquarian Society, May 1884, 131 (Catalogue)