Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567/10
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,south farm road
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 139,045
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 128
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 14
Surface: Dark brown/olive mottled patina; small patches of pocking.speckling to light green.
Associations: 1a.Hoard, 7c. Misc. Debris
Description: Dimensions: L 127.7 mm; We 44mm; Wbt 20.8mm; B st. 31.1mm; Blp (curve) 8.5mm; T sep 14.2 mm; Tbt 5mm,Typology: rounded st. and fg. crests; some flattening at fg. ends; rect. septum end; lp. placed off centre; tendancy to facets at very top of blade angles, under stop,Manufacture: cg. fls. almost fully removed - merest bumb on lp. and reverse side; good blade tip hollows; curved irregular bevel created high on blade with hammer works below; slight tendency for close edge bevel on one face; moulding dimples in septums, flange sides, mdev stop etc.,Condition: butt end broken surface; edge mainly intact and sharp; small chip to one side - purply brown, probably just corrosion damage; fg. and stops virtually undamaged.,Attached Material: yellowy fawn soil tracel
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 567/10; black ink printed: 567