Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England, cambridgeshire,bottisham fen
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Bottisham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 156
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 446
Patina: Shades of brown and green patina.
Surface: Smooth.
Other: Length: 155.5mm,Width: edge 70mm; middle 25mm; butt 25mm,Thickness: 29.5mm; 8mm
Description: Stop ridge and semi-elliptical ornament below the stop with a median ridge running through it + down the blade.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 73, Catalogue lost.,Bronzes 71 Numbers to be found in catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 25, May 1884.