Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.,Evans Coll., 1927-2603.
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,ham road,40 acres brickfield,4 ft. deep,feb. 1877
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1877
Length (mm): 130
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 274
Other: Width; edge 38mm; centre 24mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: centre 10mm; 21mm,Weight: 274.25 gms
Associations: 28 other palstaves, 12 socketed celts, 1 winged celt, 2 bronze cakes, several lumps of metal all packed in a coarse earthenware vessels, of which British Museum has 3 fragments, Ashmolean No. 2608,small fragment of base, of grey gritty ware, brown on upper side. The Ashmolean has also No. 1927.2605, a lump of metal (orange or copper), roughly semicircular, green oxide, Length 66mm; width: 44mm; thickness 28mm; weight 340.6 gms
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imp., pp. 87, 423, 467, Hoard No. 81,O.G. S. Crawford, "Man and His Past", p. 69.