Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,63/1055 (vi)
Site: England, west sussex,rustington,manor road
Parish: Rustington
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 0493,0293
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 167
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 62
Thickness (mm): 8
Surface: Golden brown surface; patches of heavy pock scarring
Associations: Hoard
Description: Dimensions: EL 166.5mm; EWe 62.3; B st 26.3; T sep 8.0,Typology: angular crests to central ribs and side flanges; two short ribs in one sep.end with five v. sl. ribs outside; other sep. end rather more rounded with small depression; fg. crests narrow and rounded; stop crests little undulating - original? - broad and rounded,Manufacture: stumps of cg. fl. down much of sides; prob sl. dislocation at lower bl.; v. probably from same mould as 63/1055 (iii),Condition: e. all lost; butt flat-topped - broken? little damage to fg. crests,Archive: PIF and AFI,PRBAF: DF C; SI, Ext.: CI,Rec. SN Nov. 78,Source: MV
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink 63/1055,"Conserved" in area Museum Service Arch. Lab 28/2/68 - 18/4/69