Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/6
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Hill Barn Nursuries,No. 6
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 107
Width (mm): 35
Edge (mm): 46
Surface: Little browny gold smooth sur., mainly green sur., dry & textured; few purply patches
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimension: L 107.3mm; We 46; W 34.9; Bm 35.6; Blp 4.8; DS 82.5,Typology: SOMPTING MODEL 2: second m-m on sides disappear on faces; three ribs outline edges of faces, from below upper m-m for 2.3 of L.; thin ribs, one along body angle, irreg. spacing, more bowed towards centre of axe; 3 still terminate in pellets - not quite level; large ring between on one face; s. end v. narrow rect.,Manufacture: thin cg. fl. down most of sides - central stretch on rev. removed fully and bordering parts flattened; cg. fl. along bl. e. flattened with lipping one side - but bl. otherwise unworked and blunt; part of narrow crest to m-m flattened causing int. lipping; some dimpling of sur. - prob. moulding marks.,Condition: two broad broken surfaces at m., stumps of jets.,Attached Material: chalky - light brown accretion and soil adhering
Publications: a) Corwen, 1948a, pl. XX.6, 162 no. 6
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black print marking: '3652/6',Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV,Old Card: 1