Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England, cambridgeshire,burwell fen,18th feb. 1850
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1850
Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 54
Thickness (mm): 27
Weight (g): 300
Patina: Smooth half dark brown patina and side dust colour the other. Corroded half bright green, dusty brown and a little orange.
Surface: Smooth at blade end. Rather rough and corroded at the base half.
Other: Width: edge 54mm; middle 26.5mm; butt 20mm,Thickness: 27mm; 11mm
Description: Low stop ridge and wide wings. Below stop a semi-elliptical ornament containing 3 ridges rather shallow.
Publications: 28. Prehistoric Bronze. no catalogue found yet.,75 Bronzes. The Numbers to be found in catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",121. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue, May 1884