Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,568/7
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,chatham road,40 acres brickfield
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1631; 0315
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 113
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 13
Surface: Dark brown patina: very little pocking to pale green and fawn
Associations: 1a. Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: L 113mm; We 42.2mm; Wbt 20mm; Bst 29.5mm; Blp 8.3mm; Tsep 13.3mm,Typology: pointed fg. crests - flattened ends, angular top edge to stop, rounded bev. below, rounded original below st; sep. angles sl. rounded or dimpled; sl. skew in fg. to sep.,Manufacture: parts of cg. fl. stumps evid.; some lipping on side from forging of fg. ends; marked blade tip hollows; hammer rippling over much of blade; odd pmks on blade - possible damage,Condition: edge totally blunted - at least partly recent - dull golden brown; butt top sim. colour - prob. recent hammering; gold flecks along fg. crests etc.,Attached Material: fawn and light ruddy brown soil traces
Publications: Smith 1957a; No. 16.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink: 568