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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
The bronze palstave here figured was found, in 1934, in digging a hole for a wooden post in the yard of a small holding known as ‘Mount Pleasant’ in the parish of Curland, 6 miles SSE. of Taunton and about 600 ft. above sea-level. ‘Mount Pleasant’ is not named on the 6-in. Ordnance Sheet (LXXX, S.W.), but it is the building 530 yards SSE. of Curland Church, and, as the crow flies, it is only 680 yards NNE. of the ‘Beacon’ of Castle Neroche. The implement was found about 3 ft. deep by the owner of the holding, Mr. D. G. Dicks, who gave it to Dr. Richard A. Fawcus of Chard. Through the instrumentality of Capt. W. S. L. Henderson, Dr. Fawcus presented it to the Somerset County Museum in April 1935, in which collection a similar implement, having two loops (from South Petherton), had been exhibited for many years.
page 63 note 1 Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. xlix, ii, 23–53.
page 63 note 2 Other references are Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd ser. xxi, 138; Evans, , Bronze Implements, 96;Google ScholarArch. Journ. ix, 387; x, 247; xxvii, 230. In Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd ser. xxiv, 48, line 35, vol. xxxvii should read vol. xxvii; and in the next line Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. Bristol, p. lxiv, should read Arch. Inst., Bristol vol. (1851), p. lxiv.
page 64 note 1 Figured in ‘The Archaeology of Somerset’, by Mrs. D. P. Dobson, p. 86. Evans, , op. cit. 96.Google Scholar This specimen has a dark green patina, and some red metal shows.
page 65 note 1 Figured in Evans, , op. cit. 96Google Scholar (torc, 377; bracelet, 386); Arch. Journ. xxxvii, plate facing p. 107; Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxi, 138; Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. li, 142; lv, ii, 71. According to the drawing of this palstave it is 6½ in. long.
page 66 note 1 On the south side of Nynehead Hollow.
page 66 note 2 Arch. Journ. xxxvii, 107.
page 66 note 3 Figured in Evans, , op. cit. 96;Google ScholarProc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd ser. v, plate facing p. 398; ‘The Archaeology of Cornwall’, by H. O'N. Hencken, p. 80, fig. 22.
page 66 note 4 Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd ser. v, 398, 430.
page 66 note 5 Op. cit. xxiv, 44. Charminster Allotments are to the NNE. of the centre of Bournemouth.
page 66 note 6 This is 6⅜ in.; the length given in Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxiv, 48, is 5⅛ in. See also Archaeologia, lxxi, 243.
page 66 note 7 This celt, together with a socketed and ribbed celt with single loop, were presented to the museum by Mr. J. R. Turrill in 1891.
page 67 note 1 It is figured in the Arch. Journ. ix (1852),Google Scholar plate facing p. 195; also in the Bristol vol. (1851) of the Arch. Inst. p. lxiv; see also Arch. Journ. xxvii, 230; and Wilde's, Catalogue, 382, fig. 274Google Scholar.
page 67 note 2 Evans, , op. cit. 104;Google ScholarProc. Soc. Antiq. 1st ser. iii, 222; Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. li, 143.
page 67 note 3 Other French specimens are mentioned by Evans, , op. cit. 97;Google Scholar see also the list in Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxiv, 49.
page 68 note 1 Several Spanish examples may be seen in the Greenwell Collection (British Museum). One is figured in the Arch. Journ. xxvii, 230. Another, from Andalusia, is figured in the same work, vi, 69, 369, and also in Evans, fig. 89. Others are mentioned in Evans, 97; and one is figured in Bronze Age Guide, Brit. Mus. 1920, p. 155Google Scholar. Another specimen from Spain is figured in Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxxi, 159, fig. 3, no. 6; see also same work, xxiv, 49. Most of them have the blade and tang long and narrow in their proportions.
There is a double-looped palstave (length 197 mm.), from Spain, in Truro Museum; in the Herts. County Museum at St. Albans another specimen from Spain (length 216·5 mm.); and in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford a double-looped palstave (length 221 mm.) from Portugal.
page 68 note 2 This is discussed by Mr. Reginald Smith in Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxxi, 160. He notes that all the palstaves with lead additions have two loops.
page 68 note 3 See a list in Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxiv, 49.
