Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/9
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nursuries,No. 9
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 102
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 58
Surface: Much dark brown to green smooth ?p., light and bright green textured surs.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 102mm; We 58.1mm; Wm 35.8; Blp. 9.4; Ds 75,Typology: slit s. end (partly obscured); s. lower m-m. virt. disappears on rev. face; body angles quite rounded, almost facetted at top half; 3 v. diffuse diverging ribs on face, one outer one missing on rev. face, also intermittently defining edge 'facets' - pros. all cast? faces quite convex at top.,Manufacture: medium broad cg. fl. stomp low - much rounded, occ. hmks.; stump also all round m. top, broader above one face - not nec. a jet stump - mainly rounded, some lipping; small dirt filled cavity low in rev. bl. face - flaw - also notch in one side of lp.; hmks. on lower bl. tend to form v. diffuse "U" facet, give crisp body angles & marked bl. tip hollows.,Condition: e. virt. intact and fairly sharp - although v. little brown flecking suggests minimal mod. rubbing - also on flattened bl. tip, but these prob. orig. feature.,Attached material: small orange-stained patch of sur.; light orangey-brown soil traces; little chalky butt accretion
Publications: a) Lumen, 1948, pl. xx, 162 no. 9
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black print marking "3652" 9,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext. CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Card 1