Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum; L37/2,loaned 29.4.55 by Miss G.A.G. Hyde, 30 Cescent Road, Worthing
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): 125
Width (mm): 21
Thickness (mm): 13
Surface: Black to dark green patina; flaking and pocking, especially at edge and fg. crests, to pale green and coppery brown surfaces - partly rubbed?
Associations: 1a. Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: L 124.7mm; Wbb 20.88mm; B st 28.9mm; max T sep 13.2mm; Tbt 4.6mm (approx); Blp (centre) 7.4mm,Typology: septum corners quite angular,Manufacture: rippling in one septum probably moulding marks; possibly minimal clipping of flange ends; lower blade covered with hammer marks forming diffuse bevel line; very slight blade tip hollow; butt end partly smoothed off - including neat smoothing of 'cut' corner; ridge stump cg. fl.,Condition: one blade tip missing; pres. damage; rest blunt - partly corrosion damaged.,Attached fawn soil traces - septum and under loop
Publications: Smith 1957a, no. 20
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink: L 37/2