Find Spot record 1440/0/8 - Bronze Age Hammer Stone

A grooved hammer stone was found by the OS investigator, lying among debris below the Stormy Point mines in 1964. Sketch (1).
According to (2), half an axe broken through the central hour glass perforation was found within buried debris in a similar location to other mining mauls from this site. A fairly crude example apparently used in the mining of rock, and much battered.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ87NE2.1/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<2> 1998, Alderley Edge Landscape Project Archive, 232 (Unpublished Report). SCH4334.

<3> Timberlake, S. and Prag, A.J.N.W., 2005, The Archaeology of Alderley Edge (Book). SCH4769.