Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567/8,No. 8
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,broadwater,south farm road,1928,found 3 ft. deep in a gravel pit.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1928
Length (mm): 131
Edge (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 311
Other: Length: 131mm (Drawn as 135mm),Thickness: 30-31mm,Weight: 10 oz. = 311.03 gms
Associations: Hoard of 11 palstaves and 2 socketed celts.
Description: Prominent stop-ridge. Hole below [..] on one face only.
Publications: M. Frost, Early History of Worthing, pp. 23-28.
Remarks: Probably from same mould as No. 7.