Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb. 1939,On loan to Littlehampton Museum
Site: England,Sussex,Yapton,Flansham
Parish: Yapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 34
Width (mm): 17
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 29
Patina: Mostly dull bronze colour, with small [grooves?] of green here and there.
Surface: Smooth generally, but with a little encrustment.
Associations: 2 socketed celts and 5 fragments; 1 socketed gouge and 1 fragment; 1 socketed knife fragment; 3 sword fragments; 1 ferrule and 1 fragment; 1 spearhead VI fragment; 1 copper cake; and 25 metal lumps.
Description: Piece of gouge including edge; edge fairly sharp.
Publications: Sussex Notes and Queries, VII, 78