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): 72
Weight (g): 59
Patina: Dull green and brown.
Surface: Partly encrusted, including two large limps, one on the side, the other underneath, and smaller lumps on the grooved part of the surface.
Associations: 2 socketed celts and fragments; 1 socketed gouge and 1 fragment; 1 socketed knife fragment; 1 ferrule and 1 ferrule fragment; 1 spearhead VI fragment; 1 copper cake, and 25 metal lumps.
Description: Socket end broken off, but the implement is very nearly entire. Fairly sharp rounded cutting edge, circular socket. Diameter 14mm.
Publications: Sussex Notes and Queries, VII, 78