Fig 



^. — Stone Adze from Corporation 

 Street, Manchester, i : 2. 



A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The third illustration of this class, fig. No, 5, shows a larger and rougher 

 stone, unfortunately broken. It was found in clay which was ' undisturbed,' 



at a depth of 13 ft., in Cheetwood, near 

 Manchester. The preserved portion, 

 however, well shows the general cha- 

 racter of the implement, which though 

 larger than the foregoing is pierced 

 with only a small hole, measuring | in. 

 diameter. The width of this imple- 

 ment is 3 J in. ; in thickness it narrows 

 slightly from near the end (i|-in.) to- 

 wards the centre (i^^in.). It measures 

 4 in. from hole to end. The end is 

 roughly dressed to an edge towards one 

 side, and the faces seem to show patches 

 of the original surface of the stone. 

 The form of the implement indeed 

 seems to have been suggested very 

 largely by the shape of the original stone 

 before dressing. The material is a fine gritstone. 



A fourth example of this class found at Preston in or near the docks 

 resembles the latter somewhat closely, not only in the fact that it also is 

 broken in half, but that it has been fashioned to a similar form which seems 

 to have been suggested by the original stone. The end is dressed to an edge. 

 Like the last described its thickness decreases from near the end, where it is 

 H in. to I in. in the middle, being about 3 J in. wide throughout. From hole 

 to end it measures 4jin., and it was presumably about twice that length. 



In this classification there naturally occur forms which cannot be strictly 

 separated, but rather link the types naturally. In addition to that already 

 described from Greenheys, Manchester, which links with the class hereafter 

 described under 'round hammers and mace-heads,' there may be noted particu- 

 larly the rounded hammer from Goosnargh, fig. 1 2, which merges with both 

 types, and might be regarded also as a small adze-like implement. 



(b) ^xes with one end rounded. 

 — The double axe proper is not 

 represented among the stone imple- 

 ments of the county. The speci- 

 men figured on Plate III. No. i 

 simulates the double axe in section, 

 but is seen to belong to the next 

 class of axes with one end rounded 

 — as classified by Sir John Evans. 

 It was found near Mode Wheel, 

 Salford, in cutting the Ship Canal, 

 1890. Its length is 6 J in., and 

 greatest width 3 in.; its weight is 

 I lb. 13 oz. The photograph shows 

 the character of this interesting 

 implement, which in one respect 



Fig. 5. 



-Large Adze from Cheetwood, 

 Manchester, i : 2. 



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