Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567/9
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,south farm road
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 139; 045
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 135
Width (mm): 18
Edge (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 14
Surface: Gold brown to dark brown patina; granular textured areas of light green surface; virtually no pocking, but flaking at edge; slight silveryness on one blade face crests rubbed to smooth dull gold - but not damaged
Associations: 1a. Hoard/7c Misc. Debris
Description: Dimensions: L 135mm; We 35.7mm; Wbt 18.4mm; Bst 29.9; Blp 8.3mm; T sep 13.6mm; Tbt 4.3mm,Typology: fg. and st. crests rounded; some fg. end flattened; sep. end rounded rect.; slight twist - sep. to blade edge.,Manufacture: 2 or 3 cavities penetrating butt end, small hollow in one blade side - cg. defects; some irreg. in fg. tops - mainly cg. features; hammer rippling on lower blade; cg. fl. stumps on central part only,Condition: butt end - broken surface; blade edge all blunt - prob. just corr. damage.,Attached Material: fawn to light brown soil traces
Remarks: Labels/Markings: Black ink: 567/9,Black ink printed: 567