Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 8/692,presented Sept. 1965; had remained in private hands since discovery - in the possession of Mr. Linfield after discovery (a)
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nursuries,No. 14
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 118
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 66
Surface: Mottled dark brown to green surface, mainly granular textured; occ. edges rubbed to gold-flecked
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 117.5mm; We 66.4; Wm 39.7; Bm 43.7; Blp 12; DS 89,Typology: narrow slit end to s. - not nec. flat; sl. lower m-m, virt. non-existant on rev. side; plain faces, virt. flat; rounded body angles,Manufacture: medium to broad stump of cg. fl., flattened crest with hmks. and some assoc. lipping; cg. fl. inside lp. not in plane with outside; hammer rippling on lower bl. face, creating triangular facets against body angle and some bulging of line of sides above bl. tips and sl. bl. tip hollows; top of m. mainly rounded with some small hmks., but stretch on side with stump of cg. fl. flattened cavity int. lipping; also broken sur. from one jet remaining.,Condition: most of e. intact & v. sharp; central part with a no. of nicks, gold- brown, & modern dam.,Attached Material: mid brown to pale buff soil-embedded - and coating part of rev. face
Publications: a) Curwen, 1948a, 163 no. 14, pl. xx
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: '68/672',Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV