Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Bronze Age looped palstave
Palstave of late type; plain with a loop, a damaged narrow blade, and curving stops with surface sloping inwards. The blade surfaces towards the blade end have been repeatedly hammered into shape, as indicated by small concave hammer scars.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/2
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:152.0
length / mm
maximum width / mm:44.5 (blade edge)
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:31.0
thickness / mm
weight / g:442.4
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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