In Fig. 69 is shown an unfinished casting for a palstave of unusually small size, which formed part of the great hoard found at Stibbard,[283] Norfolk. About seventy such castings were found, and about ten castings for spear-heads (see Fig. 407).
Fig. 70.
Irthington. ½
The form of palstave with the side wings or flanges hammered over so as to form a kind of semicircular socket on either side of the blade, is of rare occurrence in Britain, and is usually provided with a loop. In Canon Greenwell’s collection is one (7 inches) without any ornament below the square stop-ridge, with the side wings slightly hammered over. It was found with others (with and without loops), together with a mould for palstaves (Fig. 527), at Hotham Carr, Yorkshire, E. R.
In a hoard of about sixty bronze objects found at Westow,[284] about twelve miles from York on the Scarborough Road, was one palstave of this kind, like Fig. 85, but without a loop, and about thirty socketed celts, six gouges, a socketed chisel, two tanged chisels, and numerous fragments of metal, including some jets or runners broken off castings.
The type is of common occurrence in Austria, South Germany, and the South of France.
Palstaves of the adze form, or having the blade at right angles to the septum between the flanges, are but very seldom found in Britain. A small specimen from the collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., is shown in Fig. 70. It was found at Irthington, Cumberland.
Another, from North Owersby, Lincolnshire, in the same collection, is shown in Fig. 71. It has a remarkably narrow chisel-like blade.
Irish examples will be subsequently cited.