Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 567/13
Site: England,Sussex (West),Worthing,South Farm Road
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 139 045
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 40
Surface: Milky to olive green patina, pocking and flaking mainly at e. to pale green dusty surface.
Composition: ?Analysis holes in blade face
Associations: 1a. Hoard/7c. Misc Debris
Description: Dimensions: EL 91.7mm; EWe 40; Wm 38.6; Bm 37.3; min Blp. 5.9; DS 73.5,Typology: rev. face with m-m spaced by flat area - on other more continuous curve; Upper body with qt. bowed face and rounded angles; s. bowed rect. with flat ret. bowed rect. end; s. taper to the bottom; crisp inside e. to m.,Manufacture: Much of thin cg. fl. untrimmed - removed at bottom ends; holes rounded edges in one face and cracked s. wall - cg. defect caused by displacement of core; hmks on bl. - v. sl. development to bl. tip hollow; stumps of 2 jets; many dimples in sur. - moulding fractures,Condition: bl. e. badly damaged by corrosion; destiny of socket wall opening crack a little.,Attached Material: light orangey-brown soil traces - esp. in socket
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 567/13; black ink printed: 567,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 76,Source: MV