English: A near complete Middle or Late Bronze Age copper alloy palstave, probably dating to c. 1300-1000 BC. The butt end of the palstave is trapezoidal in shape, 54.7mm long and 5.2mm thick, in width it tapers from 32.7mm at the stop to 17.3mm at the butt. The septum is also trapezoidal, with relatively low side flanges, which are triangular when viewed in profile, tapering from the stop to the butt. At the stop the septum is 25.0mm wide and 9.0mm deep on the less abraded face, and with a vertical stop ridge. At the stop the palstave has a sub-rectangular cross section, with very slightly convex faces, 27.5mm thick. Flanking the line of the stop on one side of the palstave are the remains of a loop, now incomplete.

The blade end of the palstave is broadly sub-rectangular in plan, with very slightly concave edges and terminating in a covex cutting edge, without flaring blade tips. From the stop the blade narrows in plan to minimum of 27.9mm before the mid-point of the blade, before expanding out again to 33.2mm wide at the cutting edge. The cuting edge is abraded but it seems unlikely the blade tips flared. The blade has a sub-lozengiform cross section, the result of a pronounced central longitudinal ridge running down each face of the blade. The mid-point of the blade is 18.8mm thick, and in profile the blade tapers gradually from the stop to the cutting edge. There is no further decoration on the face of the blade, and casting seams are visible on either side of the palstave.

Overall the palstave is 150.0mm long and its maximum width, including the vestigial remains of the loop, is 39.7mm. It weighs 340g.

Very similar late Palstave axes with similar vertical stop ridges, triangular flanges and thickened (described as Hexagonal) blades can be seen illustrated by Savory (1980: 172, nos. 182, 180 & 178). No. 180 is described as being of "Penard" metal, this metal working group dated to 1300-1150 BC, and a similar date range seems likely here.