Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567/4
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,south farm road
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 139; 045
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 135
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 6
Surface: Mainly gold to dark brown patina: little scattered pocking to pale green; dark chocolate brown at some breaks
Associations: 1a Hoard/7c Misc. Debris
Description: Dimensions: L 135.2mm; EWe 34.8; Wbt 19.8mm; B st 30mm; Bst 8.7mm; T bt 5.5mm; T sep 15mm,Typology: small sloped underside to stop with bev. at crest; tendency for very thin facets down blade angles?,Manufacture: stumps of cg. fls on haft sides; moulded from patterns in one sep.; revers sep. with depression high; hammer marks on blade edge and edge bev. very close to edge,Condition: porous broken surface at butt top: most of edge intact and qt. stump, rest chipped - probably corrosion damage.,Attached Material: pale butt soil traces
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink 567; black ink 567/4; black ink printed 567