Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3653,Source not recorded in Museum records, but "purchased at West's shop Brighton, said to..." according to old NBI card.
Site: Unprovenanced,Alt Site: Worthing, 40 Acres Brickfield
Discovery context: auction
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 112
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 27
Surface: Surface: most granular textured grass to pale green surface; part of socket and bl. es. smooth dark brown - ?rubbed.
Associations: 9. Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: L112.2mm; EWbl 26.5mm; max W across lpt 20.6mm; W sm 20mm; Blp 8.5mm; Ds 81.5mm,Typology: venticular lp. plates with painted ends; just little under cutting round sides of plates, perfs. straight with oval shape, but break socket wall in centre part beneath loops; drc. s. becomes little ell. towards blade; small expn. of s. at m.; small circ. flat-ended s.; blade probably flame-shaped originally.,Manufacture: core not axial producing one over-thin midrib well,Condition: most of blade edge irregular - possibly due to deterioration - not sharp; s. break-rounded, worn, dark brown  small part broken - not fresh; perf. in midrib with sharp edges, miscast or broken at weak point due to mislocation of core.,Attached material: traces of yellowy soil inside and out.
Publications: a) Grinsell, 1931, 62, no. H 10
Remarks: Label/Markings: black paint marking "3653",Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext. CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Cards: 1