Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/9
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 feet north-east of Hill Barn, Sompting and 1,500 feet south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring (TQ 176062), 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): 102
Width (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 36
Other: Length: 4" = 101.6mm,Width: 1.3" = 33.02mm,Thickness: 1.4" = 35.56mm
Associations: Leeds Class B2; bronze cauldron; Hoard
Description: Cutting edge sharpened and widely flared. Possibly decorated with raised ribs on both faces.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 9.,Sussex N. & Queries, Vol. 12, 1 pp. 9-11.