Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,3658,source and ddate unknown; catalogued Dec. 1950
Site: unprovenanced,alt. site: highdown hill, ferring, sussex
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 122
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 14
Surface: Granular textured surface - mottled dull green/orangey-brown; scattered spots of bright green corrosion
Description: Dimensions: EL 121.8mm; EWe 48.6mm; Wbt 22.5mm; max T sep 14.3mm; max EBst 24.3mm,Typology: rounded corners to septum, and masked constriction just below stop - but not distinct bevels; crimoline flange profiles; very square blade angles in section; slight longitudinal depressions in centre of septums; almost vertical underside to stop; blade faces very slightly dished,Manufacture: pore holes at end of one sep. and in butt end; slight ridge remains of cg. fl.;  marked hammering of blade edge forming diffuse edge bevel and deep blade tip hollows; hammering of flange ends causing dishing of upper flange sides.,Condition: blade tip broken off recently - chocolate brown; odd nicks in edge and much on one stop-anc. damage; rest of edge intact but not sharp - probably corrosion; butt end rough broken surface - possibly original from after snapping off jet; loop broken off in ant.
Remarks: Context: 9. Undocumented,Labels/Markings: black printed no. direct on blade: 3658