Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 568/12
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): 102
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 39
Surface: Brown to black patina; small areas pocked & flaked to light & pale greens; some gold flecking on corners, etc. - rubbing?
Associations: 1a. Hoard (C)
Description: Dimensions: L 102mm; We 39; Wm 40.2; Bm 38.8; Blp 7.7; DS 81.5,Typology: bowed plain faces; cl. rounded body angles; no int. ribs; bulbous upper moulding with quite prom. second moulding; sub-triangular lp. section.; part of s. end observed but prob. narrow rect.,Manufacture: stump of medium thick cg. flash all down sides - v. sl. moulding along side on rev. side; crude amorphous metal lump on underside of upper moulding - not corrn.; pit adjacent to lump, and sim. irregy. on rev. face between m-ms - prob. cg. defects; irreg. stump of cg. flash vert. from inside edge of m-m top; odd sl. undulations on upper faces.,Condition: bl. e. mainly intact but little blunt - prob. corr. dam.; one bl. tip corr. chipped; denting of rev. face - not serious.,Attached Material: fawn soil esp. in socket.
Publications: Smith, 1957a, no. 25
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink: 568,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV,Old Card: 1