Looped palstave fragment
This fragment (the browner part of the palstave in the photograph) is one of three Middle Bronze Age items found together by a metal-detectorist and declared as Treasure. The group consists of a palstave axehead broken into two pieces, and a piece of waste from the casting process. They form important evidence for the manufacture of Bronze Age weapons in Devon.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 6/2011/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- looped palstave fragment
- Simple Name
- axehead
- Period Classification
- Middle Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC)
