Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/7
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 1846. 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): 132
Width (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 39
Other: Length; 5.2" = 132.08mm,Width: 1.6" = 40.64mm,Thickness: 1.55" = 39.37mm
Associations: Leeds Class B2,Bronze Cauldron,Hoard
Description: Rough casting with collar and raised band below.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII, (1948), pp. 157-163 and plate XX, 7.,Sussex N. & Queries, Vol. 12, 1, pp. 9-11.