Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,61/37,donated 18.4.58 by F. G. Scrace, Sea Lane, Ferring
Site: England, west sussex,ferring,st. malo's close,"spring tide"
Parish: Ferring
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 0992; 0164
Year of discovery: 1958
Length (mm): 142
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 15
Patina: milky to grass green patina
Surface: Parts flaked to v. pale green dusty suv. and coppery brown esp. edges fg. crests, etc.
Description: Circumstances: found May 1958 on a dump of soil from the foundation trench of a bungalow, now known as Spring Tide, on south side of St. Malo's Close (b),Context: 8 Single find,Labels/Marking: black ink 58/61/37 St. Malo Close, Ferring,Dimentions: EL 141.8 mm; EWe 35mm; Wbt 22.3mm; max T sep 15.2; ETbt 8.7mm; Blp 8.9 mm,Typology: marked rib and furrows terminated quite abruptly by transverse bev.; rev. side has crude be. across fg./bl. junction - prob. forged; ridge across bl. side just below bop - poss. cast? flange ends clopped prob. by hammering - small flat facets,Manufacture: stretches of thing cg. ft. remain on fg. sides - rest totally removed; body riddled with cg. flows: - fairly substantial hollows under either stop and in sides - some partially closed by hammering; depressions in septum ends; some smaller pore holes; moulding ripples on butt faces also on rev. fig. side as far as bev across; flanks over lower bl. faces,Condition: bl e. totally eroded away; butt top broken surface - some corr. dam. also; subst. parts of fg's missing - part miscast; part dam and corr.,Attached Material: deposits of light brown soil in some hollows, other small patches attached.
Publications: a) Wilson 1964, 9,b) Lewis 1960, 17.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF-C; SI,Ext: CI,Rec: SN Nov. 78,Source: MV