Object: Unlooped Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,Acc. No. 63/1055(iii)
Site: England, west sussex,rustington,found at the junction of manor road and old manor road
Parish: Rustington
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: NGR TQ 049029
Year of discovery: 1961
Length (mm): 165
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 27
Composition: Tin bronze
Other: Width: butt 23mm; at stop ridge 27mm; blade 63mm,Thickness at stop-ridge: 27mm
Associations: Rustington Hoard, 5 other Palstaves.
Description: Heavily patinated. Flanges at end damaged by corrosion. Lumps of corrosion on sides and blade.
Publications: Sussex. Arch. Colls., Vol. 101 (1963), p.25.