Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3562/6
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 feet north-east of Hill Barn, Sompting and 1,500 feet south-west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring (TQ 176062), October 1846. Five feet deep in an accumulation of brown clayey mould.
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Sompting
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: 1946
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 36
Other: Length: 4.1" = 104.14mm,Width: 1.3" = 33.02mm,Thickness; 1.4" = 35.56mm
Associations: Leeds Class B2 bronze cauldron,Hoard
Description: Rough casting with collar. A pair of nearly parallel raised lines ending in a pellet decorate each edge of the two faces. Each pair of lines is slightly curved, perhaps in imitation of wings. On one face, between the two pairs of lines, is a circle motif. Iron stain on one face.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 6.,Sussex N. & Queries Vol. 12, 1, pp. 9-11.
Remarks: From the same mould as No. 3652/5