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Object type: Double socket-stone
Measurements:
L. 146 > 128 cm (58.25 > 57.5 in); W. 62 > 50 cm (24.5 > 19.75 in) at northern end, 57 > 47 cm (22.5 > 18.5 in) at southern end; H. 60 > 43 cm (23.5 > 17 in)
North socket: 41 x 27 cm (16 x 10.5 in); south socket: 49 x 23 cm (19.75 x 9 in); both 18 cm (7 in) deep
Stone type: Greyish yellow (5Y 8/4), medium-grained, clast-supported, quartz sandstone. The grain size ranges from 0.4 to 1.0 mm, but most are in the range 0.6 to 0.9 mm; grains, which vary from sub-angular to sub-rounded, are mostly quartz, but there are a few white ?kaolinised feldspars. Millstone Grit, Carboniferous
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 506-7
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 195-6
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The stone is roughly squared and carries two oblong socket holes.
Double sockets have a limited distribution across the borderlands of Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire (see Chapter V, pp. 37–8). This type, cut for square-sectioned shafts, can be paralleled within the present Corpus region at Stretford 1 and Whalley 14 (Ills. 649–50, 706–7), as well as Bolsterstone and Ecclesfield in Yorkshire and Whaley Moor in Derbyshire (Sharpe 2002, pls. on 62, 68, 107; Coatsworth 2008, ills. 249–51, 803–6). There may also be two further, now-lost, examples from Cheetham Hill and Rochdale (Crofton 1903, 46) — see Appendix C, pp. 269, 270.
