Object: flanged Palstave
Classification: Bent
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, 68.8-5.23
Site: Wales,Gwynedd (Merionetshire),Trawsfynydd
County: Gwynedd
Country: Wales
Grid reference: SH 70 35
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 158
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 479
Patina: Dark and light green on face Black to bronze on sides.
Other: Width: edge 58mm; middle 28mm; butt 26.5mm,Thickness: 10mm; 22mm; 30mm,Weight: 479.36 gms
Associations: Group
Publications: It appears to be the object described as "a celt" on Proc. Soc. Antiq. XXX, pp. 171-172, and figured in Hemp 1917-8, 172 fig. 2. 2, (which illustration seems to refer to this palstave).,Arch. Cambr. (2nd series) I, (1850), 332 - "Similar instruments (celts) found...Trawsfynydd."
Remarks: Rather inacc.