Object: Boss
Classification: Concave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3652/15
Site: England,Sussex,Sompting,Hill Barn Nurseries,Discovered by a mechanical excavator at a point 300 feet north-east of Hill Barn, Sompting and 1,500 feet south0west of the south-west edge of Lancing Ring (TQ176062), October, 1946. Five feet deep in an accumulation of brown clayey mould.
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sompting
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 1762 0619
Year of discovery: 1946
Length (mm): 231
Width (mm): 102
Thickness (mm): 0
Other: Length: 9.1" = 231.14mm,Width: 4" = 101.6mm,Thickness: 1/32nd" = 0.03125mm
Associations: Leeds Class B 2 bronze cauldron. 17 Socketed Axes; Sheets of Bronze
Description: A boss-shaped object hammered from one sheet of bronze; badly damaged and apex of cone missing.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XXVIII (1948), pp. 157-163, Fig. 5 and Plate XXIb.,Sussex N. & Queries, Vol. 12, 1, pp. 9-11,and AJ 1957
Remarks: Checked for M-K.