Find Spot record 20 - Bronze Age Axe from the Manchester Ship Canal

<1> Shone W, 1911, Prehistoric Man in Cheshire, p.68 (Book). SCH2710.

Socketed bronze axe from Ince section of Manchester Ship Canal.

<2> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Vol 50 (1934-5), p.91, J.W.Jackson (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

Found in Manchester Ship Canal (Mersey Drainage) c.1892. Length 4.75 inches. Parallel ribs on its faces.

<3> Varley, W. J. & Jackson, J. W., 1940, Prehistoric Cheshire, p.106 (Book). SCH2692.

'square in section and has 5 ribs, ending in pellets, on its face'

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ47NE1 (Index). SCH2487.

A bronze Age socketed axe with five ribs and pellets found near Ince Ferry. It is in the Shaw Museum, and a cast is in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester

<5> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, Artefact record sheet_No.364 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

Looped and socketed bronze axe, from the Ince section of the Manchester Ship Canal.
Square in section and has five ribs ending in pellets on its faces. Length 4.75 inches.
In 1978, at Weaver Hall Museum.

<6> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, Record Card, No.364 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

<7> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, Vol 1, p.102 Longley D 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

Formerly in the Shaw Collection, Runcorn, now at Norton Priory Museum & a cast in the Grosvenor Museum

<8> Davey P & Forster E, 1975, Bronze Age Metalwork from Lancashire and Cheshire (Monograph). SCH488.

Found in 1897 whilst digging the Manchester Ship Canal.