Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum 568/13
Site: England,Sussex (West),Chatham Road,40 Acres Brickfield
Parish: Chatham Road
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: see transcriber comment
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 99.8
Width (mm): m 39.4,s 80.5,see transcriber comment
Edge (mm): 43.6
Thickness (mm): m 37.6,lp 9.3,see transcriber comment
Patina: olive-green to gold-brown p.
Surface: patch of olive dark green lumpy corr.; scattered pocking - some speckled - to pale green dry sur.
Other: Top left corner (in box labelled NGR) says “c. TQ 1631” and on the next line, “0315” (aligned under the “1631”). Is this a grid ref? Dimensions - I have assumed that "Wm" is Width m(iddle), "We" is Width of E(dge), also that "Bm" and "Blp" are Thickness m(iddle) and Thickness l(oo)p respectively, and that "Ds" is diameter (i.e. width) of s(ocket). I completed the Width and Thickness fields accordingly, but they need checking (especially as the value for Ds seems too large to really be the diameter of the socket). Bottom right of card: Rec. “SN Nov '78”; DF “c”; Source “MV”; old cards “1” and ticks in boxes labelled PIF, AFI, SI & CI
Associations: 1a Hoard (c)
Description: Labels/Markings: white ink: 568,Typology: spaced double m-m, upper one tending to have flattened bulb with bev. at bottom edge; rounded body angles; no int. ribs; rect. & sl. waisted socket with rect. end flat,Manufacture: stump of cg. fl. along much of sides; sizeable hole in socket well on either side - edges of metal smooth & rounded - casting defects; broken rump of cg. fl. on top of m-m, not all on inside edge; sl. hammer rippling on lower bl.; small pit halfway down face  - cg. defect,Condition: small parts of e. sharp, others little blunted - anc. and/or recent; few corr. chips also; notch out of mouth - corr. dam. - choc. brown.,Attached Material: light brown to fawn soil  coating on outside, and clods inside - s. - core?
Publications: Smith, 1957 a, no.27