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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. 220