Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,568/8
Site: England, west sussex,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): 48
Width (mm): 24
Thickness (mm): 16
Surface: Palid green to silvery surfaces, much rubbed etc. to brown and gold.
Associations: 1a. Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: EL 47.5mm; W (at upper break) 24mm; EBst 29.8mm; Blp 11mm; Tsep 15.7mm,Typology: longt. furrow in either septum becomes deeper depression at bottom end; off-centered rib running up one septum end; 3 ribs on one face - possibly converging - almost totally removed from reverse face - traces evident; blade angles probably quite crisp before mutilation.,Manufacture: stumps of cg. fl. - including large lump in upper loop angle; add small pits in septums may be cg. defect,Condition: central body fragment - both breaks ancient; stop and fg. crests very battered front fgs and both stops possibly not reduced much - reverse fgs possibly more lost; reverse blade face, outer loop surface, and much of reverse side, mutilated by gouging and filing - dark brown and gold,Attached Material: slight traces of light brown soil; three white grits (?) embedded
Publications: Smith 1957a, No. 5
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink 568