Object: Chisel
Classification: Tanged & Collared
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Grosvenor Museum, Chester,1.7.26,Presented in 1899 among mixed collection of Charles Porter, collected for him years before by an old man who lived in the Meols District.
Site: England,Cheshire,West Kirby,Shore of Meols (Wirral Peninsula)
Parish: West Kirby
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 48
Width (mm): 10
Edge (mm): 27
Thickness (mm): 8
Patina: Green bronze with grey patina (?oxidised).
Surface: Rather sandy. Poor condition.
Other: Width: edge 27mm; middle 10mm; tang 5mm,Thickness: middle 8mm; tang 6mm
Description: Tang squarish, snapped off. Collar roughly oval with slightly flattened faces. Edge damaged.