Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2558
Site: England, cambridgeshire,barrington,1867
Parish: Barrington
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 144
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 26
Weight (g): 361
Patina: Brown
Surface: Very smooth, except butt which is rougher and rusty.
Other: Width: edge 70mm; centre 24mm; butt 24mm,Thickness; 1-26mm (centre)
Description: Butt imperfect. Shield on face with raised bead outline and slight midrib down blade.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, p. 78, Fig. 59.