Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567,567/5 (No. 5)
Site: England, west sussex,worthing,broadwater,south farm road,1928,found 3 ft deep in a gravel pit.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1928
Length (mm): 130
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 311
Other: Width: edge 43.4mm,Weight: 10 oz = 311.03 gms
Associations: Hoard of 11 palstaves and 2 socketed celts.
Description: Prominent stop-ridge. Crescentic edge. Squared butt.
Publications: M. Frost, Early History of Worthing, pp. 23-8.