Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/1
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 feet north-east of Hill Barn, Sompting and 1,500 feet south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring (TQ 176062), October, 1946. Five feet deep in an accumulation of brown clayey mould.
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Sompting
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: 1946
Length (mm): 117
Width (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 32
Other: Length: 4.6" = 116.84mm,Width: 1.3" = 33.02mm,Thickness: 1.25" = 31.75mm
Associations: Leeds Class B2 cauldron.,Hoard
Description: Rough casting with horizontal raised band below a collar and four vertical ribs ending in pellets on two sides; between each rib there is a dot in the centre of two concentric circles. Most of collar missing through imperfect casting. Incrustation of iron rust on one face.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 1.,Sussex N. & Q., Vol. 12, 1, pp. 9-11
Remarks: From the same mould as 3652/2, 3, & 4.