Monument record 1446/29 - Gate posts with carved face

By the side of the track, an earlier gateway into what may have been an earlier field adjacent to the quarry (pre-dating woodland?) two faced stone gate piers to the south end with crude cartoon of a man’s head with beret underwritten with the word ‘SAVE!’. Apparently this is a commonly used term and refers to Mussolini. The face probably dates to the 1940’s (1). An incised helmeted head supposedly in imitation of Mussolini and carved during the war with the word ‘SAVE!’ incised beneath the face on a gatepost (2).
There is also a strong possibility that this gate led to a track that went, through a short tunnel, into the quarry (pers. comm. Chris Carlon). The dressed pillars and short access from the quarry to the track would seem to bear this out (3).

<1> 1998, Alderley Edge Landscape Project Archive, 127 (Unpublished Report). SCH4334.

<2> Various, Written Communication to the HER, The Manchester Museum, Petch.M, 1991. (Written Communication). SCH3756.

<3> Dibben, Nigel, 2006, Personal Communiication (Written Communication). SCH4768.

<4> Timberlake, S. and Prag, A.J.N.W., 2005, The Archaeology of Alderley Edge (Book). SCH4769.