Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567/3
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,south farm road
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 139; 045
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 151
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 15
Surface: Black to green-brown patina; localised patches of brighter green speckled texture surface; pocking and flaking, mainly close to blade edge, to light green dusty surface; chipping at edge also revealing dark brown smooth surface.
Associations: 1a. Hoard/7c. Misc. Debris
Description: Dimensions: L 151.3mm; Wbl.e 35.6mm; Wbt 19.5mm; max B bt 5.5mm; T sep 14.5mm; B st. 31.7mm; Blp 10.2mm,Typology: crisp body angles to butt end, but each with facet, just below end; fg. crests mainly rounded to flat and undulating; underside of st. bevelled - reverse one more regular; constriction at top of blade not defined by neat side bevels; blade angles crisp; septum angles fairly crisp, corners little rounded, end little bowed; both septums offset to right at bottom,Manufacture: low fairly narrow stump of cg. fl. on loop - rounded with some battering; above loop and on central part of reverse side low broad flat-topped cg. fl with hammer marks, but no  sign lpg.; fully removed elsewhere on sides, where some suggestion of hammer marks, also on lower blade; very slight hollows immediately beneath stops on faces - probably cg. flaws; some irregularity on fg. insides - as cast,Condition: butt end a broken surface - untampered with; blade edge more or less intact, but not sharp, possibly due to det.; band of diagonal grmks. up on blade face - pres. modern but no diff. colour,Attached Material: butt soil traces, especially on butt end and under lp.
Publications: a) Frost 1928, 1st plate - no. 3
Remarks: Recognised in 1979 as a hafted axe, wrongly marked '568'; its identification as from the South Farm Road hoard, indicated by the old B.A.C. and, is verified by the early published photograph (a),Labels/Markings: white ink 568 - incorrect (in 1979)