Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1923,Miss Evelyn Portal, Freemantle, Over-Wallop, Hampshire,given to her father by Lord Clonbrock
Site: Ireland,Galway,Ahascragh,on the Clonbrock estate,1850-1860
Parish: Ahascragh
County: County Galway
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 84
Width (mm): edge 46; middle 28; butt 27
Thickness (mm): 28; 4
Weight (g): 219.7
Patina: brownpatina rubbed off in one or two places.
Description: Butt is hammered. On the septum are rough scratches, apparently old, which have been read XI+I = G.A.N.A.