Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,582,apparently received in 1937, source unknown
Site: England, sussex (west),selsey
Parish: Selsey
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SZ 85 93
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 158
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 95
Thickness (mm): 12
Surface: Undulating surface, varied dull to pale green - some pock scars; sides and edges brown banded stains across haft and from modern hafting.
Associations: 4. Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: EL 157.5mm; EWe 95mm; Wbt 38.8mm; max T 12mm,Typology: no trace of face bev. or e. bev.; body edges qt. crsip but no flanges; double-facetted on one side - poss. not orig. feature; butt prob. approx. orig. shape.,Condition: crack across one face - probably ancient damage; part of edge poss. near intact but reworked recently - dull brown, not particularly stays: notches prob. anc. dam; little bit at butt and all down sides brown - reworked; band of recent cuts across either side,Attached Material: small patches of orangey brown soil
Publications: a) Wilson 1964, 8, pl. 6b
Remarks: Labels/markings: black ink - printed 582,Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext: CI,Rec.: SN Nov 76,Source MV,Old Card: 1