Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hampshire Co. Mus. Service,ex-Zillwood, Mr. M.A. - private (no. 4)
Site: England, hampshire,minstead,clay hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Minstead
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 287 118
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 146
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 380
Surface: Grass green patina - much flaked and pitted; dull green with rusty orange staining on rev. bl. face - pitted sur.; elsewhere pale light-green dusty sur., odd lumps pale green corr.; one sep. covered with granular textured blue-green - speckled in odd other places.
Associations: 7a Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 146mm; EWe 48.3mm; EWbt 22.3mm; Bst/fg junction 25mm; Tsep 8.2mm; Wt 379.5 gms,Typology: central ribs on near flat bl. faces, flanked by triang. hollow at top; one stop crest dipped in centre and with groove-cum-ridge along it - cast, but also some hammering; fg. crests were prob. rounded; fairly angular, sq. ended sep. one face; rev. sep with more rounded floor and 2 short ribs in end - not symm.; bt. top prob. flat orig.,Manufacture: depression between loop stumps - flow or design?; traces of cg. fl. - off central on rev. side, sligt dislocation between parts of the two valves, ? miscast stop (see above); no e. bev. survives,Condition: all bl. e. blunt - one bl. tip certainly ancient, rest corr. dam.; fg. crests irreg. due to corr. dam.; loop prob. lost in ant.- but recent rubbing to dull gold on stumps; bt. corr. dam - line poss. little changed.,Attached Material: Light yellow-brown soil matrix in pockets.