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Description: | A complete, but slightly worn and heavily pitted, unlooped palstave of Middle Bronze Age date. The butt end is rectangular in form, possibly missing its top edge due to old breaks, and has relatively low and worn flanges. At each side are possible traces of a casting seam, but this is uncertain due to the preservation of the object. Below the stop ridge there is shield pattern decoration, beneath which extends the splayed blade. This is triangular in form and section with a relatively straight cutting edge, both faces showing extensive signs of post-depositional corrosion and pitting resulting in much of the original surface and dark brown patina being removed. There is a modern scrape on one stop ridge and the entire object has traces of a very pitted dark brown patina. It measures 157mm in length, 61.58mm in width at blade end, 25.81mm in width at stop ridge, 25.69mm in maximum thickness and 390g in weight. This is a palstave of Middle Bronze Age date, c.1,500-1,150 BC.
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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