Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 568/11
Site: England,Sussex (West),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): 109
Width (mm): 42
Edge (mm): 40
Surface: Silvery-brown patina, some gold mottling; v. little deterioration to light green
Associations: 1a. Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: L 109.2mm; We 39.7; Wm 42.4; Bm 39.3; Blp 7.0; DS 87.5,Typology: rounded body angles; sl. bowed faces; sub. rect. socket, v. sl. waisted, & with narrow flat rect. end - slightly bowed; s. surs. with fine linear structures and granular texture - from core pres.,Manufacture: thin cg. fl. down both sides - little trimmed, hints of it along bl. e.; bumps opp. cg. fl. on interior as well; stumps of two jets on mouth - one broken off too high; parts of inner e. of m. with v. thin lips surfaces with number of irregular mouldings - prob. from cg.; also few hammer dents on one bl. face.,Attached Material: fawn soil - mainly inside socket.
Publications: Smith, 1957 a, no. 24.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink: 568; handwritten rect. sol: 8,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV,Old Card: 1