Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,63/1055 (iv)
Site: England, west sussex,rustington,manor road
Parish: Rustington
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 0493,0293
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 147
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 7
Surface: Dark coppery brown surface; some restricted areas heavily pocked, other odd pits
Associations: Hoard
Description: Dimension: EL 146.5mm; EWe 63.7; Wbt 21.3; EB fg 24.7; EBst 23.9; Tsep 7.3,Typology: central rib with rounded cast; side flange prominent and extended to blade tips - rounded/pointed crests; rounded septum ends; broad rounded stop crests; flanges probably were leaf-shaped; sides of blade. almost certainly were triple facetted - central broad one; narrow flange crests.,Manufacture: merest hing of cg. flange - very slight crevice; probably had e. bev.; may have come from same mould as 63/1055 (iii) and (iv) despite narrower proportions - sides have been worked evidently,Condition: Blade edge irregular and blunt; butt broken off - in ant.? parts of flange broken.,Archive: PIF and AFI,PRBAF: DF C; SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN No. 78,Source: MV
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink 63/1055,"Conserved" by area Museum Service Arch. Lab 28/6/68-18/4/69