Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,568/1
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,chatham road,40 acres brickfield
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 1631,0315
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 108
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 7
Surface: Fine deep green patina; large parts of reverse face and sides pocking to light green, dry surface, or flaked at crests, etc.
Associations: 1a Hoard (c)
Description: Dimensions: EL 108.0mm; EWe 43.0mm; EBfg 23.6mm; T sep 7.0mm; Bst 22.7mm,Typology: one st. crest dipped, other humped - probably original; broad midrib begins at lower level than stop; remains of side-fgs; remnants of shoulder humps on sides; fgs probably originally leaf-shaped; septum broad 'U' section;,Manufacture: row of pits only to suggest eg. fl.; number of deep cavities of small bore - probably porosity; blade extensively ? forged, truncating ribs - mainly smooth, little undulating but no clear hammer marks; some fine long t. strations in septum may be anc.; shorter "brush" scmks and other long t ones look post p, but not necessarily recent,Condition: edge very blunt - possibly some medn. interf. - dark brown rubbed; one corner of butt -broken surface-probably anc., rest rubbed brown - originally broken? fg crests well ribbed - possibly not much lost; some cut facets on blade edges - recent,Attached material: very few small traces of light brown soil.
Publications: Smith 1957a, No. 22.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink 568,Archive: PIF, AFI,PRBAF: DF (C), SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV