Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/5
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,No. 5
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 106
Width (mm): 35
Edge (mm): 46
Surface: Dull browny green dry sur., with odd patches of gold; ruddy brown areas at m. - ?iron-stained
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 106.1mm; We 45.8; Wm 35.1; Bm 34.5; Blp 4.7; DS 79.5,Typology: SOMPTING MODEL 2; lower m-m v. slight, disappears intermittently; v. narrow rect. s. end; bl. e. flat-ended.,Manufacture: cg. fl. v. thin down sides, little thicker at bl. e. - much round crested & undulating, some flattened with assoc. lpg.; well smoothed inside lp.; quite thin broken e. of cg. fl. round m. seems consistently to face inwards, thus narrow flatt. top of m. poss. cast? certainly a prom. lip at one point suggests some hmg. inwards, curling down towards s.; broken ribs - miscast - also pres. terminal pellets and central motif - missing on rev.; depressions in m. top with round top - mould cavity not filled; cast dimpled sur. in parts.,Condition: unfinished - no edge preparation.,Attached Material: small patches of chalky-buff accretion; spot of orange-brown soil matrix inside s., plus another prob. lighter in colour at s. end.
Publications: a) Curen, 1948a, 162, no. 5, pl. xx
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black print marking "3652/5",Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN Oct. 79,Source: MV