Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Late Bronze Age palstave

Fragment of the butt of a palstave.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

31.62/11

Find Information

Site Name: Crowther's Camp, Guilsfield

Date: 1862

Notes: Found during the digging of a field drain, packed tight as though originally deposited in a perishable container, on the south-east side of Rhuallt, 100m from Crowther's Camp, an Early Iron Age hillfort, near Guilsfield.

Measurements

maximum length / mm:37.0
length / mm
maximum width / mm:26.0
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:14.0
thickness / mm
weight / g:53.9

Material

copper alloy

Location

In store
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