Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 568/16
Site: England,Sussex (West),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): 75
Width (mm): 37
Edge (mm): 41
Surface: Gold to brown p.; some green speckling, and little flaking to pale green or deep chocolate brown at e.
Associations: 1a. Hoard (C)
Description: Dimensions: L74.7; We 36.5; Bm 33.5; Blp 8.3; DS 55.5,Typology: rounded body angles; lp rather asymmetrical in section and plan; m-m has flattish upper sur. sl. sloped outwards; narrow s. end - prob. almost a slit; sub-rect. socket,Manufacture: cg. fl. v. prominent on both sides - prob. little removed; old small hollow in rev. face prob. cg. defects; hints of dimpling on faces poss. from moulding; diffuse bevel low across bl.; sl. bl. tip hollow one side; dimples in underside of m-m - cg. or pmks? hints only of cg. fl. end inside edge of m-m top; some lipping inside socket at m. cavity on inside of s. - casting defect.,Condition: e. all irreg. - corr. chipped,Attached Material: fawn matrix in pockets and socket
Publications: Smith 1957a, no. 28
Remarks: Label/Markings: white ink: 565,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN Nov. 78,Source: MV,Old Card: 1