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Description: | Incomplete bronze looped palstave of Middle Bronze Age date (1500 BC-1200 BC). Length 131mm, width 56mm and 29mm thick. Weight 372g. The palstave is heavily encrusted with secondary corrosive features in the form of blisters and cracks and the attachment end of the butt and the loop are broken and missing. These breaks are similarly corroded indicating that the breaks are probably old. The implement has been cast in a bi-valve mould as the remains of a casting seam are present along the longitudinal centre-line of each edge. From the proportions of the piece, it may be estimated that about 2/3 of the butt survives. The palstave has well defined bulbous stop-ridges. At the point where the flanges join the stop-ridges they are 7mm high above the flat surface of the septum. However, the three flanges that are intact (one of them is broken and largely missing) rapidly diminish in height towards the broken part of the butt. The septum is 7.5mm thick and is decorated on each side with three vertical parallel ribs although it is difficult to see these due to the excessive corrosion. The blade is widely splayed and viewing the faces with the stop-ridges, the sides of the blade are slightly convex in profile. Beneath each of the stop-ridges is a median rib which extends about 35mm along the blade. These ribs narrow in width as they extend towards the cutting edge. Immediately beneath the stop-ridges and either side of each median rib is a small recess which enhances the upper part of the rib. These features might otherwise be described, perhaps, as a shield-shaped depression with a mid-rib. The curved cutting edge has rounded corners. Slight damage along the cutting edge appears to be old. The palstave was found in a mobile environment of sand and shingle within the inter-tidal zone. However, it has undoubtedly trans-located from an upper cliff-face section. | 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
-1201 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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