One with a narrower and more distinct midrib, found at Nymegen, Guelderland, Holland, is in the museum at Leyden.
Fig. 76.—Brassington. ½ ———— Fig. 77.—Bath. ½
In Fig. 77 is shown another variety which has two beads running down the sides of the blade, in addition to the central rib. I bought this specimen at Bath, but I do not know where it was discovered. It is much like one which was found on the Quantock Hills,[322] in Somersetshire, and is engraved in the Archæologia. The side flanges are, however, in that case more lozenge-shaped, and project to obtuse points about half an inch above the stop. Two palstaves and two torques were on that occasion found buried together, as has already been mentioned. One of the same type (5¾ inches) from Elsham, Lincolnshire, is in the British Museum.
One of narrower form (6⅛ inches) but of the same character, found with socketed celts (some of them octagonal at the neck) at Haxey, Lincolnshire, is in the collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S.
I have another of the same type, but imperfect, which was found with a plain bronze bracelet, and what from the description must have been a small ribbon-like gold torque, at Winterhay Green, near Ilminster. I have a smaller specimen (5 inches) from the Cambridge Fens.
The unfinished casting for a palstave of the type Fig. 77 (5½ inches) was found with four looped palstaves, and one without a loop, and a spear-head like Fig. 409 at Sherford,[323] near Taunton, in 1879. Some of the palstaves have a raised inverted chevron below the stop-ridge by way of ornament.
Palstaves of the same character, but without the loop, have already been described under Fig. 63. The looped type, like Fig. 77, occurs also in Ireland.[324]
In the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of London is a heavy narrow looped palstave (8 inches by 2 inches) with this ornamentation, found in Spain.