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Bronze Age Plastave
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None, Laura McLean, 2007-07-09 13:37:03
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Bronze Age Plastave
Description
English: Bronze Age cast copper alloy plastave. The palstave has straight, parallel sides for most of its length, only begining to significantly expand out for the cutting edge of the blade. The blade has an elongated oval profile, which becomes pointed at the blade end. The width of the plastave is 24.81mm at the butt end, 24.71mm at the stop ridge, the width before expanded blade is 38.75mm increasing to 56.35mm at the expanded blade edge. The butt end is slightly rounded, and has some wear to one side. The flanges are 8.72mm in height. The septum is 8.04mm thick, and shows signs of wear on both sides. The crescentric blade is slightly uneven from wear. The palstave has a maximum thickness of 24.1mm across the stop ridge. The total length of the palstave is 150.91mm. It has a dark green-black patina. There are patches of copper corrosion on all faces of the plastave, however most of the plastave retains the original patina. The palstave dates to the beginning of the Acton Park phase of the Middle Bronze Age. The plastave is similar to plate 41 no 520, in Schmidt & Burgess 'The Axes of Scotland & Northern England'
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 1500 BC and 1200 BC
Accession number
FindID: 186017
Old ref: ESS-222B96
Filename: ESS-222B96 palstave.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/143635
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/143635/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/186017
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