Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/1
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sumpting,Hill Barn Nurseries,No. 1
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): 45
Edge (mm): 59
Surface: Varied green to dull brown dimple-textured sur.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 120.3; We 58.9; Wstlp 44.9; Blp 8.2; Bm 32.5; DS 94.5,Typology: 4 ribs terminate in pellets forming sl. oblique line - sim. diag. on either face; hints of ring-snd-pellet motifs between rib ends; SOMPTING MODEL I; slit s. end,Manufacture: m. more or less as-cast - insufficient metal to fill mould; some hmks on top, poss. with assoc. int. lipping; narrow cg. fl. on sides becomes v. broad at e. - mostly flattened with assoc. lipping; sl. ridge at top of int. side on line of valve junction; short wavy rib on bl. adj. to e. - cg. flaw, as also broken ribs and acc. sur. irreg.; prong of cg. fl. inside loop; lentoid pmks on sides low down - anc.,Condition: unfinished,Attached Material: fairly thick deposit on much of rev. face - dark brown and orange, iron-rich; smaller scattered deposites of chalky accretion; small traces of light brown soil.
Publications: a) Anven, 1948a, 162 no. 1, pl. XX
Remarks: Label: black ink printed marking: '3652' changed from 3652/3,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV