Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567,No. 1
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,broadwater,south farm road,1928,found 3 ft. deep while digging in a gravel pit.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1928
Length (mm): 169
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 36
Weight (g): 498
Other: Length: 169mm (Face drawn as 170mm),Weight: 16 oz = 497.66 gms
Associations: Hoard of 11 palstaves and 2 socketed celts.
Description: Squarish butt. Casting joints visible on side. Protruding stop-ridge. Large loop. 4 short grooves below it on face.
Publications: Frost, Marian: The Early History of Worthing (1929), pp. 23-28.,Worthing Archaeological Society, 6th Report
Remarks: Late types of palstaves.