Record ID: LEIC-CD1825
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Bronze Age palstave axe, The axe is complete and has a rounded, damaged, blade with a steeply angled blade edge. The centre of its body has a shallow semi-circular depression below a straight stop. It has short triangular shaped flanges. Along the casting ridge on one edge (left in picture) there is a slight protrusion and possible scars from a suspension loop? Length: 157mm, width: 32.0mm, thickness at flange: 22.0mm, at blade: 72.0mm, weight: 451g. the axe is similar to examples in BAR 233 36, 37 and 39 which are Shield pattern Palstaves, Burgess class I.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.