Object: Chisel
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,x70/162
Site: SUSSEX (WEST),FERRING,HIGHDOWN HILL,Circumstances: apparently not recorded in early sources and circumstances thus unknown; catalogued 1970 having previously been unregistered and (presumably) stored with Henty's collection.
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Ferring
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 092 043
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): (chord) 109.8
Width (mm): Chisel edge 4.2; max. B. 3.0
Surface: good grass green p.; couple of small areas flaked to pale green dry sur.
Other: Modern card, fields do not match data entry template
Associations: Context: 7b. GROUP
Description: Typology: one end a neat chisel-edge, sl. convex; opp. end appears non intact, rounded - prob. not functional, but a tang; cross-sec. rhomboid - faces and sides flat; tapers fairly steadily to tang end,Manufacture: tendency to irreg. facetting along parts of faces & sides, assoc. with forging; no defined e.bev.,Condition: no evid. that bends are dam.; edge good and quite sharp, one v. small nick; fine scmks. diag across faces look recent
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: x70/162