Find Spot record 1350 - Bronze Age Stone Hammer

Stone hammer....found a short time ago near Siddington...in a boggy piece of ground, about two yards below the surface, and upon the red marl. Its length is 7.5 ins, breadth 3.5 ins, thickness 2.5ins, hole for the handle 1 3/8 ins; one end is rounded, the other vertically wedge-shaped. In composition it appears to be in character with some of the lower grits which crop out about 2 miles southward (millstone grit) (1).

<1> Shone W, 1911, Prehistoric Man in Cheshire, /38 (Book). SCH2710.

<2> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/89 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<3> Unknown, Geologist, 7/56 (Book). SCH1264.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ87SW4/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<5> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.175 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.