Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,568/6
Site: England, west sussex,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): 135
Edge (mm): 32
Thickness (mm): 14
Surface: dark brown/dove green/dull gold mottled patina; little flakes to pale green
Associations: 1a. Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: L 135.4mm; We 32mm; B st 29.2mm; max T sep 14mm,Typology: blade angles insp., both faces and sides bowed; rounded fg. and stop crests, diffuse arched devel across septum at fg. ends; crisp septum angles,Manufacture: 2 grooves on underside of stop - cg. flaws; partial remains of thin cg. fl. sides - qt. markedly off-centre; totally removed on blade landing to facets; diffuse bevel to to blade edge; cavity in reverse face of butt, with longt. furrow below - both cg. defects; some undulation of septum floor; 2 small hollows in reverse side - cg. flaws; score along one septum - recent dam?,Condition: edge mainly intact and sharp - few odd chips of patina removed; lp. breaks probably recent - purply brown colour; butt very uneven - one corner recently chipped, rest original break or damage?; also much of one fg.,Attached Material: fawn soil traces
Publications: Smith 1957a, no 14
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink: 568