Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/11
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,No. 11
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 127
Width (mm): 43
Edge (mm): 73
Surface: Dull green to gold to brown smooth sur., little brighter green granular tex. patches.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 126.5mm; We 72.8; Wm 42.5; Blp 13.5; DS 96,Typology: virt. flat body faces, sides little bowed, angles only little rounded; lower m-m v. slight & tends to disappear on part of rev. side; loop constructed at top; slit end to s.; finials to lp. base,Manufacture: medium broad cg. ft. on sides, much flatt. with assoc. hmks. & lipping, small stretch on rev. rounded - as cast? medium-broad cg. fl. round inside e. of all intact m. top - has mainly broken sur.; mould cav. not filled - half upper m-m missing, extant top sur. rounded; some porosity holes and other surface irregularities poss. from cg.; hmks on lower bl. assoc. with sharper body angles + sign. bl. tip hollows skewed in some way for either tip.,Condition: Bl. e. good intact but not party. sharp; gmks across bl. e. seam assoc. with little brighter gold flecking, but also on frags. of p., apparently going under corr. spots.,Attached Material: Chalky butt accretion in limited areas; also little pure white powdery deposit - esp. inside lp.
Publications: a) Crowner, 1948a, 162 no. 11, pl. XX
Remarks: Labels: faint block print making "3652"/11; White ink 3652/11,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Cards: 1