Find Spot record 573 - Socketed Axe from Winwick

<1> Cuming HS, 1859, On British Antiquities Discovered in Lancashire, p.234 & 236 (Article in Journal). SCH9011.

An example of the amgarn with side loop, four inches and a half in length. It was found at Winwick; and the ornamentations on its faces seem to throw some light upon the intent of the tri-dental figures on the other specimens. We here see the three parallel, or nearly parallel, lines, with lateral diagonal lines, producing a form similar to that found on certain ancient British coins ;which, no doubt, is intended for the branch of a tree, perhaps that of the uchelfar, or sacred mistletoe, so venerated in Druidic times. Illustrated.

<2> Evans J, 1881, The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain And Ireland, p123-124 (Book). SCH254.

Celt with three vertical ribs ending in pellets, in addition to the vertical ribs there is a double series of chevrons over the upper part of the blade. The metal is somewhat oxidised. Found at Winwick, near Warrington, Lancashire. An ornamentation of nearly the same character, but without pellets at the end of the ribs, occurs on a socketed celt from Kiev, Russia. Illustrated.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ69 SW 22 (Index). SCH2487.

<4> Davey P & Forster E, 1975, Bronze Age Metalwork from Lancashire and Cheshire, no.97 (Monograph). SCH488.

<5> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, no.576 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

<6> Freke, D.J and Holgate, R, 1987, Excavations at Winwick, Cheshire in 1980: 1. Excavation of Two Second Millennium B.C. Mounds, p.10 (Article in Journal). SCH8278.

A flat axe and socketed axe with a Winwick provenance in Warrington Museum may be attributable to the Southworth Hall Farm mound (CHER 571/1/3).