Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,54/440,presented 17 July 1954 by FL Williams, 2 Reveril Drive, Sompting
Site: England, west sussex,east preston,the ridings,"seaward"
Parish: East Preston
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 0683,01875
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 147
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 13
Surface: Fir green patina with silvery and golden sheen patches; some lumpy corrosion - rich green to deep orange-brown; much flaked/pitted to pale dry green surfaces,Attached material: patches with very thin coating of yellowy soil/acretion, merging into chalky dust material
Associations: 1.b. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: EL 146.9mm; EWe 37.7mm; Bst 31.7mm; Tbt 5.0mm; Max T sep. 12.7mm; Blp 10.5mm,Typology: rounded stop crest-tendency to facetting - not regular; fairly crisp septum. angles; short upper blade sides emphasized by thing ribs, two slight diverging short ribs between, mainly lost on reverse. face; marked construction below stop, but only diffuse bevel on sides;,Manufacture: thin stump of cg. pl. along much of sides, removed totally from part of loop; moulding ripples inside on septum.; no defined hammermarks on blade edge, nor blade tip hollow; probably unworked; furrow-bevel across end of one butt face - ancient, possibly in removal of jet,Condition: butt top uneven rough surface - breaking off of jet probably; blade edge totally blunt-squared off-partially corroded but must have been blunt originally; most of reverse flange crests broken off and corroded; score marks up one septum - recent damage.
Remarks: Label/Markings: white ink: 54.440,Archive: PIF + AFI,PRBAF: DF C, SI,Ext. CI,Rec. SN Nov. 78,Source: MV,Old Cards: 1