Find Spot record 1470 - Bronze Age Palstaves

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Vol.31 p.149-50 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

Two Bronze Age looped palstaves found in 1912 by workmen repairing a hedge bank near the railway at Stannylands, between Wilmslow and Styal. The two are almost identical and are 6.25 incheslong, with blades 1.5 and 1.6 inches wide. Their variation in weight, 16.25 and 11.25 oz, is attributed to unequal corrosion. Both axes in Stockport Museum (Vernon Park).

<2> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, p.103 (Book). SCH3556.

Described as transitional looped palstaves, both with damaged loops.

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

<4> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, no.181 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

<5> Davey P & Forster E, 1975, Bronze Age Metalwork from Lancashire and Cheshire, p.54-5 (Monograph). SCH488.

Illustrated.