Object: Awl
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, X70/164,Presumed to come from Henty collection
Site: England,Sussex (West),Ferring,Highdown Hill,Catalogued 1970, and marked, having previously been unregistered and presumably found stored with Henty's Highdown collection; apparently not recorded in early sources and circumstances this unknown
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Ferring
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 092 043
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 36
Width (mm): 4
Surface: Grass green patina, much of haft end speckled light green - mini-pocking.
Associations: 7b. Group
Description: Dimensions: EL 35.7mm; Wbt end 4.3mm; B bt end 0.8mm; W point end 1.2mm; B print end 1.1mm; max B 2.2mm,Typology: one end round-sectioned, other changed to rect. sec. by long triangular facets; very sl. expansion to sides at broken butt; sides of haft-end virt. flat.,Condition: point break appears to be anc. - dull grey colour; butt fracture could just be corr. dam. - varied pale green & laminated - prob. not much lost. V. sl. bend along length - not necessarily wear or dam.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 'X70/164',Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext. CI,Rec. SN Oct. 79,Source: MV