Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: 'Stone hammer. Old copper mine. Alderley Edge. See Dawkins Trans. Manch Lit Phil Soc.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
Boyd Dawkins, W. (1876). 'On the Stone Mining Tools from Alderley Edge, Cheshire' in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 5. pp. 2-5
Event Date 1876
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Timberlake, S. and B. Craddock. (2013). 'Prehistoric Metal Mining in Britain: The Study of Cobble Stone Mining Tools Based on Artefact Study, Ethnography and Experimentation' in Chungara, Revista de Antropologia Chilena, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp 33-59.
Event Date 2013
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
Several notes found accompanying this idno. One is on a catalogue card and written in several hands, at least one of which is Anne Taylor's. In blue ink: 'Boyd-Dawkins (1874-75 excavs.?) in Brynlow workings, inf. Simon Timberlake. 14.11.97 Colin Shell'. In black ink: 'To Accession'. In pencil (Anne Taylor's writing): 4 pieces. Ancient stone implement. Old copper mine Alderley Edge. Transfer from S. Museum. Brynlow (Brinlow) Mine, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. See Marc. [sic] Lit Phil. Soc.'. A second note, all in Anne Taylor's writing, reads: 'Professor Boyd-Dawkins 1870. Paper by Charles Roeder, 1901. Wooden shovel found at same time, recently dated, found to be 1750 BC.' This note refers to the Manchester (not March) Literary and Philosophical Society, for which Boyd Dawkins prepared a paper which was ultimately published by the Journal of the Anthropological Institute (see Bib). The Roeder paper is currently unidentified.
Event Date 16/9/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (CMS Description)
Large stone tool of irregular shape with broad flakes removed from surface. Slightly waisted centre. Used in copper mining.
Event Date 16/9/2014
Author: maa