Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 574/1,presented by Mrs. Henty
Site: England,Sussex (West),Ferring,Highdown Hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Ferring
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 092 043
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 79
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 16
Surface: small patches of grass green patina; some flaking to pale green dry sur.; much embedded with granular dark brown matrix; odd splits of orange staining?
Associations: 7b. Group
Description: Dimensions: L 78.7mm; We 15.5mm; Wm 19.2mm; Bm 19.1mm; Ds 63.5mm?+,Typology: flat top to m.; concave collar round m.; with sl. ledge on underside and protruding upper edge; tendency to narrow longt. facets down body; circular s. becoming more D. shaped towards bottom; fairly crisp gouge facet angles at lower end.,Manufacture: v. sl. bumps remain of cg. fl?,Condition: e. mainly intact, [..] qt. sharp - few nicks from corr. flaking, etc.,Attached Material: traces of dirty ochre soil - pale grey matrix in socket.
Publications: a) Goodman, M. S., 87, 95 fig. 2
Remarks: Label/Markings: black ink-printed: 574; white sq. s/o label - handwritten: 5,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV