Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,77/230,presented by Mrs. T. Brewer, Sea Place, 12 Church Way, Torring, Sussex
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,goring-by-sea,eirene avenue
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 125; 020
Year of discovery: 1946
Length (mm): 145
Edge (mm): 28
Thickness (mm): 8
Surface: Little olive-green patina; mostly broken by large lumpy laminated corrosion products - light dull green; some corners dark to purply-brown.
Composition: 8b. Single Find
Associations: 8b. Single Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 145.2mm; EWe 28.3 mm; B st 28.3mm; Tsep 7.5mm,Typology: stop possibly curved, with rounded corners with flanges; slight constriction at top of blade which has straight flared sides below; trident decoration evident on one face - upper forked part almost in form of tapered rib with midridge - lower small rib; less pronounced decoration on reverse face; possibly little emphasised blade sides; in profile; probably sloped stop underside; projection from side suggest original loop,Condition: all edges damaged by corrosion - very poor general condition; part of one flange - adj. to stop possible virtually intact.,Attached Material: Yellow soil traces attached
Remarks: Circumstances: found in 1946 in a garden at Eirene Avenue, Goring,Labels/Markings: black ink: 77/230