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Description: | An incomplete Middle Bronze Age copper-alloy palstave (1500 BC-1150 BC).This implement is sub-triangular in plan and sub-triangular in side profile. The butt and most of the flanges and septum are missing due to a break In plan, the sides are parallel at the top and lower they flare evenly to the curving cutting edge. The cutting edge is asymmetrical. A vertical rib on one face of the blade is difficult to see. At the top, a small portion of the septum and flanges survive. Just below the break on each face there is a 'V'-shaped depression acting as a stop. The septum has a thickness of 6.4mm. At the break it is 'H'-shaped in cross-section.This palstave is corroded and bright green with patches of a dark brown patina. There is no indication of re-sharpening or any casting seams.Length: 104.9mm; width of blade: 53.2mm; width at top: 23.0mm; thickness: 25.0mm. Weight: 292.84g.Peter Reavill and Dot Boughton have kindly commented on this palstave:'A Primary / Early Palstave - most probably Group II decorated with mid-rib 1500-1300, but given that it is also looped I wonder if it might fall into the transitional grouping 1150-1000 which all have loops but tend to have narrower blades - yours is more fan shaped and so on balance of probabilities will best to fit it with the Group II.This fits within Acton Park II or Taunton metalworking assemblages of MBA II further fitting within Needham Period 5 (1500-1150 BC), Burgess Metalworking phase VIII. Similar axes are illustrated in Savoury (1980), Figure 22, Nos. 162 and 164'.Savory, H.N. 1980 Guide Catalogue of the Bronze Age Collections National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
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