Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/7
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hil Barn Nursuries,No. 7
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 134
Width (mm): 41
Edge (mm): 52
Surface: Dull browny-green dry sur.; little brighter green tex. patches; some smooth grey-brown to gold surface.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 133.8mm; We 52.2; Wm 41.2; Bm 39.8; Blp. 9; DS 91; BW.s end approx. 8mm,Typology: sl. bowed faces, more convex sides, body angles crisp & emphasised by sl. ribs for much of length; bulb on face only between two m-ms - little off axis - not obviously dec.; narrow but flat ended bl. e. as cast.,Manufacture: cg. fl. thin - much round crested, some hmg. tending to lip over to one side only; battered stump only along bl. e.; thin upstanding cg. fl. for part of m. broadens to two lenticular stumps of jets above faces - much flat-topped, some lpg. but smooth finish might indicate e. grinding as well as hmg.; lpg int. & ext.; irreg. & jagged ridge vert. down int. s. face, close to corner, from m. for short distance; other crude projections inside s.; some dimpled sur. - prob. as cast.,Condition: unfinished, undamaged,Attached Material: patches of chalky buff accretion; orangey-brown soil spots on outside, plus fair coating inside socket - poss. more orange - not partic. sandy
Publications: a) Curwen, 1948a, 162 no. 7, pl. xx
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black print marking: '3652/7',Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Card: 1