Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1923,George Mountford Esq.,The School, Churchstoke,Montgomeryshire
Site: England, shropshire,chirbury,middleton-in-chirbury,found by the owners' father about 1880, when digging a drain about 18 inches deep in one of the field which he occupiied at mitchell's fold tenement
Parish: Chirbury
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1880
Length (mm): 126
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 188
Patina: Dark green patina dull golden bronze metal showing through.
Surface: Fairly good, but irregular.
Other: Width: edge 34mm; middle 21mm; butt 21mm,Thickness: 8mm; 24mm,Weight: 188.31 gms
Description: Loop missing - mid-rib worn.
Publications: 1898 Catalogue ie. Shrops. Arch. Trans. X (2nd S.) p. 106, (It was No. J8 in the Exhibition of Shrops Antiqs. described as "found about 400 yards from the old Stone Circle of Mitchell's Fold.",Anden's LIst V.C.H. Shrops I, p. 203
Remarks: It is kept in the School Museum with a stone Celt from the district and a number of spindle whorls from various localities.