Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/11
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 of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring. (TQ 176062), October, 1946. 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: NA
Length (mm): 124
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 41
Other: Length: 4.9" = 124.46mm,Width: 1.6" = 40.64mm,Thickness: 1.6" = 40.64mm
Associations: Leeds Class B2; Bronze cauldron; Hoard
Description: Sharpened example with slight horizontal raised band below collar. Collar faulty through casting.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 11,Sussex N. & Queries Vol. 12, 1, pp. 9-11.
Remarks: From the same mould as No. 3652/12