Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3625/12
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nursuries,No. 12
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 124
Width (mm): 42
Edge (mm): 65
Surface: dark brown to gold patina; subst. areas with variable white green - bright green textured sur.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimension: L 124.2mm; We 65.1; Wm 41.8; Bm 44.1; Blp 11.8; DS 86,Typology: lower m-m pronounced rib; narrow rect. flat s. end,Manufacture: sl. anomalous bulge on rev. face of m-m apparently slight dislocation between two mould valves; cg. fl. - parts rounded crested, ? untrimmed, others flattened with irreg. lipping; hole in body face with rounded edges - cg. flaw; stump of fairly thick cg. fl. round s.m. - part broken sur., part hammered with assoc. lipping - int. & ext.; poor metal flaw above hole - no. of fissures; s. core misplaced - off centre; small half-moon depressions in one face seem like anc. pmks.,Attached Material: white and light brown deposits
Publications: a) Curwen 1948a, 162 no. 12, pl. xx.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink "3652/12",Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext:CI,Rec.: SN. Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Cards: 1