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Description: | From May paper - 'The palstave is long and narrow, with a splay to the blade beginning well below the stop-ridge. The maximum length is 6.4 ins.; the blade splays from 0.95 ins. across the cutting edge. The stop-ridge is pronounced, and the flanges slope more or less straight to about an inch below the butt. Below the stop-ridge are five vertical ridges across each face of the blade, each about 0.6 ins. in length. Casting seams are still visible along both sides…The condition is good, although the blade has been filed sharp exposing the bronze.' Late Bronze Age. "Found in september 1961 by workmen laying foundations on the Bestwood Park Housing Estate, some 4 1/2 miles north of the centre of Nottingham. The find-spot is in the angle of the junction of Grierson Avenue with Stone Acre (approx. Grid. Ref. SK.566450). This is reported by Mr. E. Taylor, to be the second palstave from the area: the first, found some few years ago, is apparently lost." (May, 1962)
Found during work for the new Bestwood Park Estate, by MM Searsons [?] builders. A dumper driver who found the palstave reported that there had been "other bits of stuff, but they had all been scooped away."
Accession number: NCM 1962-102 | Subjects: | Bronze Age arms and armour (polearms)? Nottingham and Notts. | Temporal: | 1200-700BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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