Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/8
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 feet north-east of Hill Barn, Sompting and 1,500 feet south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring (TQ 176062), October 1846. 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): 104
Width (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 43
Other: Length: 4.1" = 104.14mm,Width: 1.5" = 38.1mm,Thickness: 1.7" = 43.18mm
Associations: Leeds Class B2 bronze cauldron,Hoard
Description: Cutting edge sharpened and flared. Axe decorated with horizontal raised band below collar and three ribs on both sides.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 8.,Sussex N. & Queries Vol. 12, 1 pp. 9-11.