Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: In possession of the finder Mr. George Saywell,1 Moss Lane, Whixall,Nr. Whitchurch, Salop.,SE Corner,Lent to L.F. Chitty for drawing 3 vi 31.
Site: England, shropshire,whixall,whixall moss,near shropshire - flints. boundary, 6" os shropshire vii s.w.,found 6-8 ft. deep in black moss (peat), about 1926-7
Discovery context: peat
Parish: Whixall
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 172
Width (mm): 30
Edge (mm): 77
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 454
Patina: Dull brown patina, somewhat worn; rubbed through on reverse blade to golden metal and grey-green.
Surface: Fairly good: upper half shows many cracks and some pitting. Butt thin and sharp.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: edge 77mm; ridge with loop 30mm; butt 20mm,Thickness: ridge 32mm,Weight: 1 lb = 453.592 gms
Associations: None. No traces of haft were observed in the adjacent peat.
Description: Casting ridges on sides are not strictly central. Upper part of loop worn by sham of hafting. Developed stop-ridge, penetrated by large blow-hole on reverse. Narrow rounded midrib on faces, descending from follow under ridge. Sharp recurved edge, whetted on stone, giving oblique secondary edge on reverse, more curving on face drawn.
Publications: Note will appear in Shrops. Arch Trans.