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Description: | Palstave
Middle Bronze Age 1500BC-1000BC
Length 161mm, width 74mm, thickness 31mm
The butt of the palstave is flat and is flanked by two high flanges that rise from the but to a high, straight stop-ridge 63mm from the terminal. The flanges continue after the stop-ridge where they rapidly drop down and inwards to form a triangular recess immediately after the stop-ridge, the bottom edges of the flanges is convex. The blade flares outwards to form a wide convex edge. Evidence for the reworking of this blade is shown by pitting caused by hammering over the whole surface of the blade and re-curved tips, done in order to reshape/sharpen the blade. Further evidence for use is shown by a number of linear grooves/scratches running up the axe, emanating from the blade area.
The sides are heavily pitted which shows that the casting seams and edges were finished off and smoothed by hammering into shape.
The artefact is in excellent condition with its original mid brown patina covering the whole of its surface, the only area of slight of damage is at the very tip of the blade where there is a very small chip has occurred, exposing fresh metal. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -1500
-1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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