Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,63/1055 (v)
Site: England, west sussex,rustington,manor road
Parish: Rustington
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 0492,0293
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 8
Surface: Dark chocolate brown, some silvery sheen; little milky green in hollow in one sep. end; much pocked
Associations: Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 162.2mm; We 63.1; Wbt 18.6; max B St 26.5; max T sep. 7.8,Typology: central raised ridge on blade faces; pronounced side flanges higher with flat crests; broad rounded stops with gentle slope to underside - little undercut septums; hints of sl. original e bev; rounded reptum angles and rounded end,Manufacture: traces of cg. fl. as stump or crevices; cavity in one side possibly cg. defect; bl section sl rhomboid.,Condition: butt possibly a little chipped? Edge irregular - probably mainly from corrosion and treatment; formerly intact?,Archive: PIF + AFI,PRBAF: DF C, SI,Ext. CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink, inscription rubbed off,'Conserved' in area Museum Service Arch. Lab 28/2/68 - 18/4/69