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Middle Bronze Age bronze palstave
With V-shaped central mid-rib below the stop and two broken loops. Heavily corroded and pitted, of 'transitional' type, with a narrow blade. Parts of the butt and the angles of the blade are also damaged. The floors of the stop slope inwards slightly towards a large casting flaw in the form of a cavity which penetrates the septum. With a greenish-brown patina.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
66.511/2
Find Information
Site Name: Central Wales, Wales
Collection Method: surface find
Notes: both 66.511 items found in a cellar in Aberystwyth, apparently having belonged to the father of the anonymous vendor, who died about 1950, and is thought to have acquired them from a farmer in central Wales who had found them, apparently in association, while burying dead livestock
Acquisition
Purchase, 8/12/1966
Measurements
length / mm:155.0
width / mm:37.0 (of edge)
width / mm:24.0 (at butt)
thickness / mm:35.0 (at stops)
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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