Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 567/12
Site: England,Sussex (West),Worthing,South Farm Road
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 139 045
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 79
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 36
Surface: Black-brown to grey-gold p. - partly rubbed/polished? scattered pocking to pale green dry surface.
Associations: 1a. Hoard/7c. Misc. Debris
Description: Dimensions: L 79mm; Ewe 36; Wm 29; Bm 29.5; Blp 6.9; DS 58.2,Typology: Lower m-m a quite prom. beading - broken on sides and rising up body towards left hand side on wither face; flattened mouth top; wing mouldings v. sl. rib form but rather more 'plate'-form; crude V bump left inside depression at top, under m-m; no body angles top half - crisp ones lower on bl.; bowed rect. s. with narrow, almost slit end - s. por. at bottom end not waisted.,Manufacture: pmks. in depression between wings: hammer rippling of bl. e. : stump of cg. fl. rounded and flattened - none fully removed; rounded e. bev. v. close to e.; ?punched groove along one edge of bl. face.,Condition: e. essentially intact but much minor chipping - prob. corr. dam. etc. fracture of m. poss. anc.: bl. tip dented in ant.,Attached Material: traces light orangey-brown soil in s.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 567/12; white sq. s/o label - typed: 12; white ink: 567,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV,Old Card: 1