Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/2
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nursuries,No. 3,Old B.A.C. card for this axe labelled 3652/3 presumably incorrectly swapped - in fact correlate's with Corwen's numbering (a).
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 134
Width (mm): 45
Edge (mm): 60
Surface: Raised dull to bright green sur., with patches dull gold, textured with shallow craters
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 134.3mm; We 60.3; Wm 44.9; Bm 41.5; Blp 8.3; DS 100.5,Typology: Virt. flat faces with 4 ribs terminating in poss. pellets; ribs not entirely regular - some bowing and uneven spacing; pellets form diag. line - same on both faces; above, and between ribs, spasmodic traces of double-ring-and-dot motif; body sides bowed in sec.; slit s. end,Manufacture: change in level of m-m as sides suggest not perfectly matching valves; cg. fl. medium thin for much of sides - parts rounded instead as cast, others flattened with assoc. lipping; cg. fl. become v. broad at bl. e. with undulating flat top - post broken, part cut sur. - only a little lipping from hammering; stump of cg. fl. round most of m. top, v. little int. and ext. lipping; cg. fl. inside lp.; short tib at bl. e. adj. to cg. fl. cg.-flaw, as also occ. metal pimples and depressions in body and breaks in ribs; short stretch of thin cg-flaw inside s.,Condition: unfinished,Attached Material: chalky buff accretion round part of m.; occ. small trace of light brown soil, also a small patch of iron-stained accretia.
Publications: a) Corwen, 1948a, pl. XX, 162, no. 3.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black  print marking "3652/2",Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Card: 1