Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,3649,Source and date unknown; catalogued in Dec. 1950
Site: England, sussex
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 170
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 71
Thickness (mm): 8
Surface: Grass green patina, much at corners etc. flaked to dull green-brown surface; filed patches of bright gold, and others gold-flecked - modern filing, rubbing, etc.
Description: Dimensions: L 170mm; We 71mm; Wbt 19.2mm; max B. st 28.4mm; max T sep. 8.2mm,Typology: "U"-shaped septum section; broad rounded stop crests, stops slightly overhung; trident rib decoration on blade faces - central rib becomes raised ridge below junction; slight thickening of blade towards its sides,Manufacture: traces of edge bevel; diagonal pmks lining central ridge - except on one side of one face - just few nearer vert. pmks; remains of cg. fl. under loop only; swallow hole in one septum end - just breaks through to revers septum which only has slight depression,Condition: edge mainly blunt, partly anc. or corrosion, partly medium interference; parts of reverse fgs broken off - corrosion damage?, and cut recently - bright gold, butt possibly corroded and damaged.,Context: 9, Undocumented
Remarks: Labels/Markings: Rect. s/o label: '2797 DK SUSSEX', later addition '3649'