Object: SOCKETED AXE Mould
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: WORTHING MUSEUM  65/517(i),     presented Sept. 1965 by Mr. R. Hide, [sic],  26 Howard Street, Worthing
Site: SUSSEX (WEST), WORTHING, CASTLE ROAD
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ     126     038
Year of discovery: 1965
Patina: outside & part of inside:  olive green to brown p.;  matrix face:  black green more shiny p.,
Surface: outside & part of inside:  olive green to brown p.; much scattered small pocking and flaking to light green dry sur., and occ. to orange - or purply-brown, esp. where chipped;  few corn.[] lumps - grass green; matrix face:  black green more shiny p., less det.,  but parts concealed
Other: No illustration., Two distinct inks one black, one blue) used throughout.
Associations: CONTEXT:  7a,  AREA FIND
Description: DIMENSIONS:  L (in plane of contact face) 105 mm; max. EW. 46.5;  max B. 24;  matrix:  L  75.5;  Wbl.e. 29; Wm.  32.4;  D upper m.m 15.5;  min D lp. 1.8;  ,  D bev. across bl. 6.5;  H core prints 2.8 & 3.0, TYPOLOGY:  casting matrix TV double m-m, good bulbers upper one:  lp. springs from sl. lower one to 2 ribs descend - one ne[indecipherable] straight at first, but beth bend inwards;  sf. channels franking insides, end one outside of rib;  rounded prom., vert., left between ribs;  extended transverse bev. m matrix below its ends - would create crease;  mall sides near straight in sec.,  body angles fairly crisp; loop channel - rounded V sec.;  aprox. 'V' grooves for ribs, Mould:  near right-angle notiches in corners of gale support with concave edges and tendency for acute ridge on inside little in boht [];  2 sym.-placed core prints, circ. and domed;  contact face variable flat to round sec., but narrow;  green outside also variable in W. and D., mainly v sec.;  outer lip, w here intact, with rounded crest or ext. facing bev.  --  joins contact face at top where intervening groove disappears - but is generally lower
Publications: a)  Green 1973
Remarks: CIRCUMSTANCES:   found 6 Sept 1965 on a building site on the North side of Castle Road, during digging of drains for the second house east of the junction between Castle Road and Harefield Avenue;   the two halves were found between three & four feet apart, at a depth of 18 inches;  a subsequent examination yielded no traces of occupation (a), EXT.:  Worthing Museum DF.,  REC.:   Sn.        Oct 79, PIF:    3 cards,  DF:    c,  AFI:   check-mark,  SI:     check-mark,  CI:     check-mark,  SOURCE:  MV.,  CONT. CARD:   1