Object: Haft-Flanged Axe 
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Wallasey Public Library,  Lent by J. Kitchingman, Esq.,  1957 (Note from Chester Museum) untraceable and presumed returned to owner
Site: England, Cheshire, Wallasey, Liscard, Zig Zag Road
Parish: Liscard
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1901
Length (mm): 132
Width (mm): edge 61 ; butt 23; centre 27
Thickness (mm): centre 10
Weight (g): 297.67
Patina: Yellowish green, rubbed off in places
Surface: Pitted, probably rough casting.  Small hole on one face of blade, probably the result of faulty casting.  On the same side is a pick mark made by the finder.
Description: It lay on a thin hard bed of black substance, which is thought to have been a hearth.  One flange on each face is bent inwards, one of these is slightly chipped.
Publications: Train. [sic] Lanc. & Chesh. Antiq. Soc. XXIX. 222, 2 plates,  Hist. Soc. of Lancs. & Chesh., N.S. XXVIII, 287, 1 plate
Remarks: 3 ft. deep, found in digging a drain, Sept. 1901, by Edward Ledson, Egerton Grove, Liscard.