Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/3
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 feet north-east of Hill Barn, Sompting and 1500 feet south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring (TQ 176062), October 1946. Five feet deep in an accumulation of brown clayey mould.
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Sompting
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: 1946
Length (mm): 133
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 41
Other: Length: 5.25" = 133.35mm,Width: 1.7" = 43.18mm,Thickness: 1.6" = 40.64mm
Associations: Leeds Class B2 cauldron.,Hoard
Description: Rough casting with horizontal raised band below a collar and four vertical ribs ending in pellets on two sides; between each rib there is a dot in the centre of two concentric circles. Hole on one side caused through faulty casting.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII, (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 2.,Sussex N. & Q. Vol 12, 1, pp. 9-11.
Remarks: From the same mould ass 3652/1, 2,& 4.