Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 568/10
Site: England,Sussex (West),Worthing,Chatham Road,40 Acres Brickfield
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 1631 0315
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 107
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 46
Surface: Greeny brown patina; localised speckled light green surfaces - granular textured & flaked.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 107mm; We 45.8; Wm 38.9; Bm 38.1; Blp 8.5; DS 79,Typology: rib mouldings vary in strength,  but continue on to sides and join; double m-m with localised bump on one corner only; sub-rect. socket very sl. waisted towards bottom with slit end; short prom. rib on wither socket face,Manufacture: stumps of cg. fl. on upper sides - removed totally lower part which has been forged into triple facet; neatly trimmed base of cg. fl. round m. top-against inner edge of faces, but not of sides; marked bl. tip holes and development towards secondary flanking hollows in each facet; hammer rippling of bl. e. creating curved bevel; gmks across bl. e. almost certainly anc.; various small fields of pmks,Condition: most of e. little blunted - corr. & recent dam? - tendency to brown colour; scattered small pmks. dents, etc. - all look ancient.,Attached Material: small deposites fawn soil
Publications: Smith, 1957a, no. 3
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink: 568; rect. s/o label: '11' handwritten,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV,Old Card: 1