Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Wild, Mr. J. - private,Bull Farm, Kenley, Shrewsbury, SY5 6NN
Site: englad,shropshire,uffington,haughmond fields
Parish: Uffington
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SJ 5387 1462
Year of discovery: 1979
Length (mm): 154
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 59
Weight (g): 440
Surface: Olive green patina preserved in small patches on sides and blade, and over most of septums; mainly flaked to fir green dry surface with lighter green pockings; small areas on blade stripped down to gold metal. Conserved at London Institute of Archaeology Lab - Lab No. 3889.
Associations: 8 Single Find
Description: Dimentions: L 154.4mm; We 59.3mm; Wst 32.3mm; Wbt 23.0mm; Bfg 26mm; Bst 27.5mm; Wt. 440.2 gms,Typology: fg. insides well sloped to rounded angles with slightly curved septum floor; end sub-rect.; shield rib begins at lower levels than fg./stop, and divided on either face by central rib; blade sec. near rect. - only slightly bowed faces; one sep rather longer than the other.,Manufacture: some dimpling undulations in patina extant - probably from moulding; cg. flash survives only as slight step, or differential surface condition; diffuse edge bevel probably originally sharp and quite steep,Condition: blade edge a little jagged - quite likely intact corrosion; fissures across base of 3 fgs just above stop - pres. dam.; butt close to orig. shape, but notch uncertain,Attached Material: chalky fawn soil deposit ingrained in patina in sep ends.
Publications: a) Salop. S. A. M. Record SA 2663
Remarks: Circumstances: Found 10 Sept 1979 by G. Haddock of Shrewsbury and District Metal Detector Society, at depth of 9-12 ", using a metal detector, at Haughmond Fields (a) Landowner J. Wild.