Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,567/11
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): 124
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 39
Thickness (mm): 13
Surface: Dark brown patina, mottled/rubbed to green in places; few scattered pocks to pale green, and flaking mainly at edge, to pale green and chocolate brown.
Associations: 1a. Hoard/7c. Misc. Debris
Description: Dimension: L 123.5 mm; We 39mm; Wbt 21.2mm; Bst 28.4mm; Blp 7.7mm; T sep 12.8mm; Tbt 4.0mm (approx),Typology: rounded fg. and stop crests, lump in other; approx rect. septum end; rather asym.  loop form,Manufacture: parts of cg. fl. stump, large and irregular - especially at top with lipping - much removed on blade sides; undulating furrow longt. stem one septum and depression in reverse - flow flaws? - also small notches in fg.?; well curved and bev. with hammer marks  - tending to split into 3 facets; blade tip hollow; little porosity in butt-end, and in one septum end.,Condition: butt end broken surface; edge all blunt - probably from corrosion.,Attached Material: light brown to fawn soil in a number of places.
Remarks: Black ink: 567/11,Black ink printer: 567,Small rect. s/o label - printed: 11