Object: Boss
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/15
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hillbarn Nurseries
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Surface: Some smooth dull green patina; most covered in tex. lighter or brighter green surface and light green spots of corr.
Description: Dimensions: min. E. intact d. 210; max. E. d. 230; T cone 04-0.7mm; T Range 0.5-0.9; EH boss 100,Typology: present tendency to ell-shape not nec. orig.; boss faces, where not crumpled, gently concave; small out turn at crest consistent on all projections, suggests bead-moulding - one even has convex profile surviving; rib moulding emphasising top of step and rim of fg.; latter with semi-circ. section orig.; base of step prob. orig. an obtuse angle - fairly crisp, but not extremely; outer fg. may have been sl. sloped orig.,Manufacture: tendency to sl. thinner sheet for cone than for surround.,Condition: almost half of outer fg. lost; most of cone crest also broken away, as well as portion of adjacent cone; one half of piece contorted by number of bends - some quite angular - all assoc.with a dull gold brown colour, and prob. recent dam.; numerous other cracks/fractures, esp. along orig. creases etc.; most edges of fracture reveal purply brown core to metal; all perfs. appear to be dam.,Attached Material: light brown soil traces embedded in areas - more chalky buff inside.
Publications: Curwen, 1948, 161,  pl. XXIb
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black print marking 3652; stuck-on paper label: 15,PIF(0); AFI; DF(C); SI; CI; Rec. SN Oct. 79; Source: MV; Old Card: 1