Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/10
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,No. 10
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 54
Surface: Varied smooth green-brown to textured and brighter green surfaces.
Associations: 1.a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 110.3mm; We 54; Wm 31.7; BM 36.6; Blp 9.1; DS 75.5,Typology: upper m-m with tendency to flattened outer sur.; lower m-m virt. non-existant on rev. side; body angles characterised by narrow neat facets; narrow slit end to socket; constriction at top of loop prob. orig.; change in level of m-m at sides; socket sl. irreg. quadrilateral shape,Manufacture: hmks on lower bl. faces; v. sl. bev. at e. prob. modern cleaning; stump of medium broad cg. fl. down sides - parts rounded, most flattened; cf. fl. also round top of in. - crest flattened with a little associated lipping; no bl. tip hollow.,Condition: e. little nicked, not sharp - browny gold traces suggest recent interference; strong pmks. not particularly regular, in one face - look anc.,Attached Material: v. light buff accretion; mid-brown soil adhering in small patches.
Publications: Corwen 1948, pl. XX 10, 162, No. 10
Remarks: Labels: black print marking: 3652 10,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Card: 1