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Late Bronze Age looped palstave
Palstave of late type; with plain narrow blade, a straight angular stop with surface sloping inwards. The butt has been broken off.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/4
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): 101.0
maximum width
(mm): 39.0 (of blade)
maximum thickness
(mm): 32.0
Weight
(g): 268.2
Material
Copper alloy
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