Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/3
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nursuries,No. 2,Old B.A.C. card for this axes labelled 3652/2 presumably incorrectly swapped - or more likely derived from Curwen's slightly different numbering (a)
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 44
Edge (mm): 59
Surface: Mainly dry dull green surface, partly textured: little smooth green-brown surface.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 135.5; We 59.2; Wm 43.5; Bm 40.5; Blp 5; DS 113,Typology: v. sl. 2nd m-m with 4 ribs descending, thin sometimes broken and a little irregularly spaced terminate in sloped line of pellets - same diagonal on either face; roundels between ribs above pellets - some with hints of pellets within; right most ribs follow body angles - otherwise rounded; slit s. end,Manufacture: sl. dislocation in m-m at valve junction; hollow in one face - cg. flaw, as also breaks in some ribs; cg. fl. stumps thin for much of sides, but v. thick along bl. e. - flattened crests look cut; v. thin flash projecting inside lp.; moulding flaw at mouth on rev. side - flattening of m-m top associated with marked internal lipping round part of mouth; small length of thin sharp cg. fl. inside s.l. remains of protruberance in one upper m-m.,Condition: unfinished, undamaged.,Attached Material: v. pale buff accretion/soil and light brown soil in small patches.
Publications: a) Curwen, 1948a, pl. xx.3, 162 no. 2
Remarks: Label/Markings: black print marking: 3652/3,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Card: 1