Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567/8
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): 131
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 14
Surface: Olive brown patina, much speckled and mini-pocked to light-green dusty surface.
Associations: 1a. Hoard/7c. Misc. Debris
Description: Dimensions: L 131mm; We 36mm; Wbt21mm; Bst 30.8mm; Blp 7.9mm; T sep 14mm; Tbt 6mm,Typology: intact fg. crests narrow, rounded; slight depression in one butt face - deliberate feature?; stop crest with fairly crisp bev. on upper edge, rounded one lower; rect. sep. end - angles qt. crisp; central part of two opposite blade angles facetted - prob. damaged.,Manufacture: slight skew on fg. and blade - slight valve dislocation marked discontinuity in loop; traces of cg. fl on central sides with slight step - removed elsewhere; porosity holes in one sep. end; depression in one blade face - cg. flaw? - has a fairly regular 'pear' shape; slight tendency to blade tip hollows; possible hints of rippling on lower blade; very slight depression in opp. face; hairline crack across blade edge - possibly forging crack - or p. crazing? notch in one fg.-cg. flaw,Condition: edge totally blunt - corr. chipping; butt top broken surface; little corrosion damage to crest of fgs and sls.,Attached Material: light brown soil adhering
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 567/8; printed small square s/o label: 8,printed black ink: 567