Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum 3652/4
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 fee north-east of Hill Barn, Sompting and 1,500 feet south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring (TQ 176 062), 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: 1946
Length (mm): 135
Width (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 41
Other: Length: 5.3" = 134.62mm,Width: 1.65" = 41.91mm,Thickness: 1.6" = 40.64mm
Associations: Leeds Class B2 Cauldron,Hoard
Description: Rough casting with horizontal raised band below collar and four vertical ribs ending in pellets on two sides; between each rib there is a dot in the centre of two concentric circles. Collar faulty through casting.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 4.
Remarks: From the same mould as 3652/1-3.