Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum 3652/4
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nursuries,No. 4
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 136
Edge (mm): 59
Surface: Mainly dull green dry uneven or textured sur., patches of brightish gold to dull brown, also some bright green.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 136mm; We 59; Wm 44; Bm 40; Blp 8; DS 109.5,Typology: SOMPTING MODEL I; most of ring-and-pellet diffuse, and exact form not discernible; socket-end-slit.,Manufacture: thin cg. fl. for most of sides into much rounded untrimmed crest, parts flattened, or removed at m. or rev. side; becomes v. broad at bl. e., where traces of broken sur. mainly observed by flattened sur. with assoc. lipping; about 3.4 of m. has cg. fl. rem. - some quite thick with broken or flat sur., but also thin jagged untrimmed fl. bent inwards; part of m. incomplete - cavity not fitted; step in line of lower m-m on sides suggest values not matched; short wavy ridge on bl. adj. to e. - cg. flaws - as also broken ribs etc.; few hmks. on ext. face of upper m-m.,Condition: unfinished,Attached Material: frags. of pale orange sandy matrix att. to interior of socket - prob. core remts.; chalky buff and rich ochreous brown deposits on outside, also orange-brown soil traces.
Publications: a) Curwen 1948a, 162 no. 4, pl. XX.
Remarks: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Card: 1