Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,64/411,donated 21 March 1969 by Mr. Martin Fester, 14 Sumoor Court, Durrington
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,durrington,
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1245; 0478
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 135
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 6
Surface: Olive-brown to green patina and scattered flaking/pocking to light green and coppery brown surfaces.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 135mm; We 45mm; Wbt 19.5mm; Blp 10.2mm; Bst 33.0mm; Tbt 6.2mm (approx); max T sep 14.5mm,Typology: thin rounded flange and stop crests, slight move angular inside edge to stops; septum angles fairly crisp; slight longitudinal depression in one septum; reverse septum flat; no defined line at blade fg. junction, on sides; slight bowed blade faces,Manufacture: only add traces of cg. fl. around lp etc.: much hammering of blade edge creating diffuse bevel line - some individual hammer marks - and marked blade tip hollows,Condition: edge little irregular - probably - through corrosion - none broken; butt top broken surface - probably from jet snapping - also one corner little damage - corrosion? Little corrosion damage to fg. crests.,Attached Material: thin coatings of yellow-ochre to chalky fawn soil
Publications: a) Evans, KJ 1966, 101 fig. 1.4, 105
Remarks: Alt. Site: Durrington Path: TQ 123052,Label/Markings: black ink: 64/411