Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,568/2
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): 154
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 39
Thickness (mm): 8
Surface: Little dark green patina, much of surface yellowy green - patina of impregnated? speckling and pocking scattered - to light green dry surface
Associations: 1a Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: L 153.7mm; EWe 39.2mm; Wbk 19.3; Bst 34.6; Blp 13.0; Tbt 7.8mm; max Tsep 17.2mm,Typology: fgs + st. with narrow rounded crests; fairly crisp septum angles, and rather rounded end; 7 very short ribs immediately below stop - possibly truncated by forging - cruder on reverse face; crisp angles to blade body; diffuse bevel at blade flange junction on sides.,Manufacture: butt end uneven surface with some smoothing at corners at least; traces of c. fl. along fg. sides only - totally removed from blade sides - some slight diagonal gmks on one side possibly original; diffuse bevel close to blade edge.,Condition: part of edge intact and sharp; one blade top broken in ant.; other chip-damaged;,Attached Material: fawn soil in septums, under loop, and in butt top depression
Publications: Smith, 1957a, No. 7
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink 568