Object: Knife
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,574/4,presented by Mrs Henty
Site: 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): 158.4
Width (mm): Wsh 26.1
Thickness (mm): max Tbl 4.8; B tang knobs 8.5
Surface: dull grey-brown sur., most obscured by granular textured coppery and vivid fir green sur.; odd spots of bright green corr.
Other: Modern card, fields do not match data entry template
Associations: Context: 7b. GROUP
Description: Typology: bl. with flattened to rounded midrib - most edges with trace of concave e.bev.; v. sl. medial ridge at top of bl. on one face; knobs very asymmetrically placed - with fairly angular crests; unusual treatment of tang sides - as if attempt to remove a strip of metal by punching a groove deeply from one face - but unfinished; on both sides mainly punched from one face causing dislocation, but also more limited punching from app. face; grooves tend to fade out into bl. shs. or sides of tang.,Manufacture: strs. along one face, bl. & tang, prob. anc. - go under lumpy corr.Condition: es. v. little irreg. from corr. but mainly intact - parts sharp. butt appears undamd.
Publications: Bibliog: a) Read 1899-1901, 387-8 no.1, fig.,b) Goodman MS, 87, 93 fig.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink-printed: 574