Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/8
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nursuries,No. 8
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 107
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 65
Surface: Mainly varied green dry surface, some textured, overlying black-green patina, exposed in patches.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 107mm; We 65.2; Wm 39; Bm 42.9; min Blp 7.7; DS 72.3,Typology: spasmodic flattening of upper m-m, but largely biconical; 3 rib motif - some bowed if not evenly spaced - disappear before joining lower m-m; rounded body angles; lp. little asymm.; narrow rect. s. end.,Manufacture: few hmks. discernible on lower bl. face, assoc. with bulge in sides just above expanded bl. e., but no bl. tip hollows; thin cg. fl. stump along much of sides, little wavy and asym.; flattening of thick cg. fl. at m. causing some lipping - inside and out.,Condition: edge intact, fairly sharp - 2 small nicks prob. mod. interference,Attached Material: areas with chalky accretion, also mid-brown soil traces.
Publications: a) Curwen, 1948a, pl. XX, 8, 162 no. 8
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black print marking: 3652 8,Archive: PIF/AFI,PRBAF: DF(C)/SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Card: 1