Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worhting Museum 568/15
Site: Sussex (West), Worhting, Chatham Road, 40 Acres Brickfield
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 59.5
Patina: dark olive to black-green p.
Surface: scattered pocking to pale green; small patch close to one bl. e. rubbed to gold
Associations: 1a. hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: We. 35.5; Wm. 34.7; Bm. 36.1; Blp. 8.1; Ds: 69.5, Typology: rounded body angles become more angular lower down due to hammering; loop a little asymetrical; sect, sl. waisted s. with rect. flat end., Manufacture: stump of cg. fl. down most of sides - thin towards top, thicker and more rounded lower; on one side a sl. more rounded and less pronounced flash runs parrallel immediately to right! pres. marked forging of lower bl. - but no hmks. observable? - no bl. tip hollows; hollow in top of rev. m-m - eg. defect; large projecting stump of cg. fl. on top of m-m - otherwise only bl. e. mainly intact & quite sharp; v. small nicks - prob.  corr. chipping, Attached material: light brown to fawn soil coating exterior and in socket.
Publications: Smith 1957a, no.31
Remarks: Markings: white ink 568, Rec.: Sr Nov. 78, PIF: check, AFI: check, DF: c, SI: check, CI: check, Source: MV, Old card(s): 1