Object: Awl
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3475,acquired before 1950 when catalogued
Site: England,Sussex (West),Ferring,Highdown Hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Ferring
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 092 043
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 51
Width (mm): 5
Surface: Grass green patina, much coated with dull green lumpy layer of thin corr. products.
Associations: 7b. Group
Description: Dimensions: L 51.1mm; max W 4.7mm; max B (just below shoulder) 4.5mm,Typology: one end with fairly crisp sq. sec. tang tapered to a point. - pres. tang; in central portion angles flattened by facets starting at different levels; oppos. end virt. sec. just with hints of flattening on faces, pres. working end - convex taper to point,Manufacture: grmks. (see below),Condition: near continuous series of fine gmks - across tang end faces, horizontally - quite prob. orig. point intact - has rounded tip, not part. sharp - no evid. for significant dam./deterioration from corr; grmks. both along working end and diag. - mainly look fresh, but some longit. ones undoubtedly poss. under stabls corr. lumps and v. poss. wear or manuf. marks; some may be recent dam.; tiny tip of tang end lost - prob. corr dam.,Attached material: traces of soil embedded in corr. layer
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 3475,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext. CI,Rec. SN Oct. 79,Source: MV