Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,south farm road
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 139; 045
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 131
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 6
Surface: Black patina - little dull gold mottled; speckling and pocking to light green
Associations: 1a. Hoard/7c. Misc. Debris
Description: Dimensions: L 131.3mm; We 42.5mm; Wbt 21.5mm; Bst 30mm; Blp 8.8mm; Tbt 5.7mm; Tsep. 13mm,Typology: faintly printed fg. crests; crisp angular upper edge to st. crest - rounded underside,Manufacture: fg. tops flattened; hammer marks on low blade - blade tips hollows; slight stump of cg.f; on fg. sides - removed from butt and blade,Condition: all irregular - most probably corrosion damage; butt top broke surface; one fg. chipped - probably corrosion,Attached Material: fawn soil traces
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 567/5; black ink: 567 printed