Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/12
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 feet north-east of Hill Barn Compting and 1,500 feet south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring. (TQ 176062). Found October, 1946, five feet deep in an accumulation of brown clayey mould.
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Sompting
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: 1946
Length (mm): 122
Width (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 43
Other: Length: 4.8" = 121.92mm,Width: 1.6" = 40.64mm,Thickness: 1.7" = 43.18mm
Associations: Leeds Class B 2, bronze cauldron,Hoard
Description: Sharpened example with horizontal raised band below collar. Hole in one side due to faulty casting.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 12.,Sussex N. & Queries Vol. 12, 1, pp. 9-11.
Remarks: From the same mould as No. 3652/11