Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 55/155,Presented 5 Sept. 1955 by Leslie Godden, Esq., 17 Crescent Road, Worthing.
Site: England,Sussex (West),Worthing,Durrington Path,Alt. Site: Durrington: TQ 1245 0478
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 123 052
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 102
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 2
Surface: Mottled deep green to dark brown patina; parts deteriorated to granular textured dull green, others to rough light green - pockig and lumpy.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: EL 101.5mm; EWe 40.2; Blp 9; DS 76.5 +?; T.s.wall at break 1.7-2.8,Typology: body angles rounded except towards bl. e. - one or two with tendency to facet along the angle; sub-rect. s. with moulding running down part of either side - asymetrical not opposite respective cg. fl.; inside e. of m. qt. crisp with some lipping.,Manufacture: fairly thin cg. fls. - untrimmed - removed towards tips - hmks and v. sl. development to bl. tip hollows; odd dimples and hmks on bl. faces - most obscured,Condition: mouth break - prob. all recent - dull brown to orangey brown; on vert. fracture however, may be anc. - less fresh looking with soil in situ on break. bl.e. blunt - much, including "cut" off bl. tip, coppery brown colour - corr. + dam?,Attached Material: light orangey brown soil traces - large clod in s. end enclosing small nodule of bronze? dross.
Remarks: Labels/Marking: white ink 55/155,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source": MV,Old Card: 1