Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,568/4
Site: England, west sussex,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): 137
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 6
Surface: Black green/dull greeny brown patina; virtually no deterioration. Light brown to fawn soil patches.
Associations: 1a. Hoard (C)
Description: Dimensions: L 137.3mm; We 34.0; Wbt 19.1; Tbt 5.5 (approx); B st 30.2; max T sep 14.3; Blp 5.8,Typology: flattened, slighly sloped, top to stops, crisp angle on inside edge, bev. on bottom edge; fg. crests thing, almost pointed - ends flattened; diffuse bev. across fg. ends; rounded angles at bottom of stops; septum and blade angle quite crisp;,Manufacture: short stumps of cg. fl. low on fg. sides and totally removed elsewhere; undulating sep. floor between fgs - from cg. probably; neat bevs. removing butt corners; small pits on underside of st. and 1 or 2 fg. nicks - cg. defects; some hammer rippling on lower blade.,Condition: butt top broken - from manufacture; edge intact largely - slight irregular from p. chipping and minor blunting; grmks across blade edge - look recent
Publications: Smith 1957 a, no. 9
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink -  568