Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 568/17
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): 61
Width (mm): 40
Surface: Dark green to brown p.; scattered pocking and pitting on loop to pale green dry sur.
Associations: 1a. Hoard (C)
Description: Dimensions: EL 60.5mm; Wm 40; BM 39; Blp 8.1,Typology: rounded body angles, neatly formed m-m - lower one well-defined almost rib-like; lp of ell. section.,Manufacture: Stump of cg. fl. form most of sides - two fins on rev. flattened over; traces of v/ thin cg. fl. sand inside edge of m-m top, with two opposing broader stumps.,Condition: blade missing. main break ancient - poss. also recent chipping at two spots; two small slashes across face - anc. dam.; as pres. the incurve of s. wall next to break.,Attached material: patches of orange-brown staining of exterior, and thin slys of orange-brown matrix over much of interior.
Publications: Smith 1957a, no. 29
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink 568,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV,Old Card: 1