Object: Bracelet
Classification: Sussex loop
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 57/346
Site: England,Sussex (West),Somtping,Stump Bottom
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 151 088
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 88
Width (mm): 74
Thickness (mm): 11
Surface: Olive to milky green mottled p.' two stretches badly det. with continuous pock-scarred dull green dry sur. & occ. pale green pocks; latter also scattered elsewhere.
Associations: 1b. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: long d. 88mm; short d. 73.5mm; B lp 66.5mm; B band 9.3-11.5; ET terminals approx. 1.0-2.2; T. band max (close to lp. convergence) 11.0; EB terminals 10.2 (both),Typology: rod of variable loz. sec.; largely sym. except for stretch close to terminals; some tendency to broaden and thicken in inverse relationship, not so marked as on L44/1; rod flattened at terminals by long tri-facets from face-angles forming thin hex. sec.; near intact terminal prob. with semi-circ. end; this curled closer to loop from other,Manufacture: numerous hmks on bar face sometimes creating concave or convex sur.; also on angles, forming facets on outside angles at loop convergence, and rippling mainly on internal angles - perhaps decorative; some parts of red with diag. & longit. scmks - no evid. that recent.,Condition: one terminal with cower chipped off - poss. corr. dam. - rest prob. only with p. chipped off; other terminal apparently more dam. - irreg. with dull to light green, and black, sur.,Attached Material: light rusty brown soil traces.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 57/346,PIF; SFI; DF(C); SI; CI; Rec. SN Oct. 79; Source: MV