Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,568/5
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,40 acres brickfield
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 1631; 0315
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 132
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 4
Surface: Dull brown/gold patina; few scattered pocks to light green dry surface.
Associations: 1a Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: L 131.5mm; We 35.3; Wbt 19.5; Tbt 4.0; max T sep 13,B st 30.1; Blp 7.9,Typology: diffuse bev. across fg. ends; rounded fg. and st crests; crisp sep. and blade angles; neatish flat butt top - smoothed.,Manufacture: cavity in fg. st. angle - cg. defect; only short stretches of cg. fl. traces; dimples and longt. pmks in seps - in cgs for grip? Depression in rev. butt face at top - cg. feature; pit in sim. position on face - possiblly anc.; little hammer rippling on lower blade face,Condition: edge virtually intact and sharp - possible minimal mod. interference; some very small dents, etc.; hairline fracture particularly to and very close to edge; grmks at edge probably recent - assoc. with dull gold patch;,Attached Material: patches embedded with light brown and fawn matrix
Publications: Smith 1957a, no. 11.
Remarks: Label/Markings: white ink: 568