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Bronze Age Palstave
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Denise Wilding, 2015-10-08 10:50:57
Title
Bronze Age Palstave
Description
English: A copper alloy palstave fragment of Middle Bronze Age date (c.1600-1000 BC). The fragment is broadly rectangular in plan. The butt end, part of the flanges, part of the blade and the cutting edge are missing due to old breaks. The flanges taper to form a worn U-shaped septum. It exhibits a worn stop-ridge approximately halfway along its length. The blade expands out slightly along its length before terminating in a worn break approximately mid-way along the length of the blade. In profile the palstave is lentoid, with the widest section at the stop-ridge. It exhibits traces of a vertical casting seam along one side, however, due to the worn condition, it is not possible to state the full extent of the casting seams or any decoration.There is a green and brown patina on the surface.

The palstave measures 57mm in length, 27.8mm in width, 20.4mm in thickness and weighs 103.92g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 1600 BC and 1000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 744472
Old ref: SOM-63A448
Filename: IMG_0301.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/535655
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/535655/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/744472
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Object location51° 12′ 06.12″ N, 3° 28′ 44.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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