Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,L37/1,Loaned 29.4.55 by Miss G.A.G. Hyde, 20 Cescent Road, Worthing
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,chatham road,40 acres brickfield
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 1631; 0315
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 123
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 14
Surface: Dark brown shiny patina; little speckling of fir green textured surface
Associations: 1a. Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: L 122.8mm; EWe 37.6mm; Wbt 20.3mm; Bst 29.5mm; Blp. 8.2mm; T sep 14.3mm; Tbt 7.8mm,Typology: narrow rounded fg. crests; tendency for flattened stop crests with angular upper edge and more rounded lower one, fairly crisp septum angles,Manufacture: stumps of cg. fl. on both sides - broad in parts - possibly from forging - above loop double flash! - Right hand one more prominent; rough surface under and around loop - probably cg. flaw - as are two nicks in one fg.; curved bev. on one blade face with hammer marks belowe - not very evidence on reverse slight blade tip hollows; sudden thinning of septum at butt-original probably-butt end forged causing little lipping - anc.,Condition: intact part of blade edge,slight blunted - probably recent, other half broken off in ant.; little of blunt end retains broken surface. from snapping jet.,Attached Material: traces of fawn soil
Publications: Smith 1957a, no. 21
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink; L.37/1