Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,54/439,Presented 14 Aug. 1954 by Mr. Nebley, 42 Chester Avenue, Worthing
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,lyon's farm nurseries
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 152; 054
Year of discovery: 1954
Length (mm): 169
Edge (mm): 71
Thickness (mm): 8
Surface: Dark browny green patina; much covered with crumb-textured green corrosion layer
Associations: 8. Single Find
Description: Dimensions: L 169mm; We 70.5mm; Bfg. 26.6mm; min B st. 21.3mm; max T sep 8.4mm,Typology: septum floor slightly dished, with quite angular corners and tendency for pointed end especially on reverse; bt. end slightly thick - but rounded, not neat; flattened stop crests and parts of fgs; shield-shaped depression - no encircling rib, vertical ridge-and-furrows inside - 4 or 5, some vague,Manufacture: alight traces only of cg. fl - well removed; edge bev. - line diffuse due to corrosion? very slight blade tip hollows; srmks and pmks on sides - diagonal and longitudinal - anc. mainly; pore hole low in one fg.; odd longit pmks in septum,Condition: edge blunt but intact - partly anc. blunting partly corrosion damage; odd gold flecks on corners, etc. - mod. interference; little corrosion damage at butt perhaps,Attached Material: patches of fawn soil adhering
Publications: a) Lewis 1960, 17,b) Wilson 1964, 10
Remarks: Circumstances: "During August 1954, Mr. J. Webley unearthed a type B palstave at Lyon's Farm Nurseries on the Upper Brighton Road. An inspection of the site revealed no further finds." (a),Labels/Markings: white ink: 54.439