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Description: | Looped palstave, cast in copper alloy. It is 142.86mm in length. The blade is 42.29mm from tip to tip. The butt is 20.86mm from corner to corner. One socket, from the stop to the butt is 60.51mm, and the other is approx. 1mm shorter. At the stop, it is 28.29mm wide and 32.19mm thick. The palstave has a fairly narrow blade, with a steeply curving edge that bears no trace of the original sharpening, due to corrosion. When looking at the face, the sides of the blade curve gradually in and then slightly outwards again towards the stop. Seen from the side, the faces of the blade are almost straight, curving outwards at the stop. The stop is fairly square, with clear corners in the socket. On one side there are three short ribs (no more than 5mm long) just inside the stop, running lengthways. The flanges are around 5.85mm thick at the base adjacent to the stop. The septum is around 7.8mm thick in its middle. The loop, which is roughly diamond shaped in section, overlaps both the blade and the flanges. Along the sides there are thick, smoothed casting lines running almost the length of the artefact: these, along with the general shape of the palstave give it a slightly hexagonal cross-section at the flange-end of the blade. The artefact is complete, but considerably corroded. Some of the original highly polished surface survives in patches in both sockets, and on one of the blade faces. One of the flanges has a well-preserved air-bubble from the original casting. The surface is general is uneven and flaky, with an orangey-brown surface that has flaked way in some places leaving an uneven light greyish-green surface (this covers maybe 15% of the artefact). The narrow blade suggests a Mid-Late Bronze Age date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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