Object: SOCKETED AXE
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: WORTHING MUSEUM        568/14
Site: SUSSEX (WEST), WORTHING, CHATHAM ROAD, 40 ACRES BRICKFIELD
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ    1631     0315
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 101.0
Patina: dark brown p., some mottling to fir green
Surface: dark brown p., some mottling to fir green; substantial patches coated in pale green concretion - some soily textured.
Description: DIMENSIONS:  L 101.0 mm;  We  53.2;  Wm  45.6;   Bm  43.5;  Blp. 95;  Ds 77.5, TYPOLOGY:  flat top to m-m - forged? - fair amount of  lipping at inner edge; rib descending about halfway down into faces from [indecipherable] - sl. wavy lines; sub rect. & with almost slit - end; and little waisted;, MANUFACTURE:  stumps of med. band [?] eg. fr.  des[indecipherable] much of sides;  marks detectable on lower bl face; poss sl. tendency to [indecipherable] tip nodules [?}; bl. tip [?} neatly flattened in ont.;  [2 indecipherable words] in centre of rev. face., CONDITION:  much of a intact & sharp; odd small nicks - mainly from corrosion, one poss. from [indecipherable] or eg; small amount of denting of one body face - poss. dam. rather than be [sic] preparation; [indecipherable] marks running across bl. edge - one, [indecipherable] under [indecipherable]; other gouged [indecipherable] running diag. down bl. - almost certainly [indecipherable], ATTACHED MATERIAL:  ochre to chalky soil adhering to s. walls
Publications: Smith 1957a, no. 26,  , LABELS/MARKINGS:, WHITE INK:   568
Remarks: REC.:  In Nov. 78, PIF:  check-mark,  AFI:  check-mark,  DF:    c,  SI:   check-mark,  CI:   check-mark, SOURCE:  MV