Object: Winged axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 568/9
Site: England,Sussex (West),Worthing,Chatham Road,40 Acres Brickfield
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 1631 0315
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 118
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 4
Surface: Coppery-brown sur.; pits concentrated at blade edges - few others scattered. "Conserved" in area Museum Service Arch. Lab 28/4/69.
Associations: 1a. Hoard (C)
Description: Dimensions: EL 117.5mm; EWe 40mm; Bfg 35.5mm; ETbt 3.8mm; minTsep 4mm; Blp 4.2mm,Typology: sep./bl. junction, deep flared "U" shape, with secondary bev. in shallow curve across upper part - less deep on rev. face; poss. orig. bev. across top of fg. sides; rounded swelling to sep actoss fg. tops,Manufacture: merest hints of cg. fl. as crevice; marked bl. tip hollows - v. angular base; cross design of pmks in one sep. - lines doubled with stron pmks also; narrow vert. furrow/facets in bottom end of same sep. - orig. feature? hint of high e. bev.,Condition: most of edge lost - small part poss. near intact; all of butt end looks broken; edges central part poss. orig. notch; large chunk of one fg. broken off - anc. dam? otherwise only few small nicks in fgs. - corr., treatment?
Publications: Smith, 1957a: 568
Remarks: Label/Markings: black ink: 568,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN Nov. 78,Source: MV,Old Card: 1