Find Spot record 1013 - Bronze Age spearheads from Frodsham Marsh

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 50/89 Jackson J W 1934 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

Two Middle Bronze Age looped socketed spearheads were found in the Frodsham Marsh section of the Manchester Ship Canal. One is in the Grosvenor Museum and the other in Warrington Museum.

<2> Shone W, 1911, Prehistoric Man in Cheshire, p.69 (Book). SCH2710.

The spearhead in the Grosvenor was found deep down in the alluvium and was presented to the museum by a contractor from Helsby in 1908. It is 6.125 inches long x 1.25 inches wide.

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

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ47 NE 2 (Index). SCH2487.

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

Grosvenor example illustrated.

<6> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, p.102 (Book). SCH3556.

<7> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, no.365 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.