Two Bronze Age axes, thought to be up to 3,000 years old, are among items that have been declared as treasure in inquests in Belfast. The axes, believed to be from 950 to 700 BC, were found buried ...

Metal detectorists have made a "remarkable" discovery unearthing two Bronze Age axe heads on land owned by a farmer in Wiltshire. Kay Stevenson, from Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire ...

These include a pair of palstaves, a type of Bronze Age axe, dated from between 1150 B.C. to 800 B.C. Archaeologists believe palstaves were mainly used for cutting wood but it is also likely they ...

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

During the Bronze Age, it was a common practice across Europe ... Sometimes they were composed of a single type of ...

A metal detectorist has told a treasure inquest how finding a hoard of Bronze Age axe heads in a field was a once in a lifetime discovery. Ken Livingstone was metal detecting pasture land in the ...

Items: > A Russian scientist chopped through 50 feet of ice in the Altai mountains of Siberia, uncovered a log stable hewn by Bronze Age axes. In the stable were the well-preserved bodies of ten ...

BRONZE AGE BOY:That’s magic dad. BRONZE AGE FATHER:A bronze axe head. That’s real magic. NARRATOR:Its 4,000 years ago and new people have arrived in Britain bringing lots of new ideas with them.

In January 2023, the 29-year-old and his brother found six Bronze Age socketed axe heads which were the main focus of the Digging for Britain episode. He said: "The local area has always been my ...