Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3625/10
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 feet north-east of Hill Barn, Sompting and 1.500 feet south west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring (TQ 176062), October 1946. Five feet deep in an accumulation of brown clayey mould.
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Sompting
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: 1946
Length (mm): 109
Edge (mm): 32
Thickness (mm): 36
Other: Length: 4.3" = 109.22mm,Width: 1.25" = 31.75mm,Thickness: 1.4" = 35.56mm
Associations: Leeds Class B 2; Bronze Cauldron; Hoard
Description: Slightly sharpened example with horizontal raised band below collar.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163 and Plate XX, 10.,Sussex N. & Queries, Vol. 12,1, pp. 9-11.