Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Norris, NES - Private,"Wayside", 20 Withdean Road, Brighton,From the collection of the late Rev. A. W. Shaw, rector of North Stoke, near Arundel.
Site: England,Sussex,near Bognor
Parish: Bognor Regis
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SZ 93 99
Year of discovery: 1936
Length (mm): 74
Width (mm): 44
Surface: Dull brown - gold surface; flaking at edge; pale fawn dirt in socket and lump corroded bronze; edge blunt through damage and corrosion; broken face - in antiquity probably; denting over much of faces.
Description: Very poor second moulding - weak and irregular; thin walling at top of reverse face, likely due to miscasting; poorly finished top and flashes.
Remarks: Label: "Nr. Bagnor 1936",SN Nov. 77,PI; DF(C)