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The Acton Park Hoard [3] of skilfully made early Middle Bronze Age axe heads found in Wrexham suggests that the area was a centre of advanced and innovative metalworking. [4] The area surrounding Wrexham is well served by several rivers, including the Clywedog, Alyn and Gwenfro, all of which are tributaries of the Dee. These rivers would have ...
These, like the Neolithic stone axes, seem to have been deposited deliberately (with axe finds being more coastal in distribution). [50] The increase in the use of these perforated axes probably accounted for the decline in the Langdale axe factory which occurred c. 1500 BC.
Polished stone axe Pike of Stickle on the left, from the summit cairn of Pike of Blisco.The central scree run has produced many rough-out axes. Harrison Stickle, the highest of the Langdale Pikes, in the right centre of the group Neolithic stone axe from Langdale with well preserved handle, found at Ehenside Tarn near the Cumbrian coast (now in the British Museum [a])
The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, also called a haft or a helve. Before the modern axe, the stone-age hand axe without a handle was used from 1.5 million years BP. Hafted axes (those with a handle) date only from 6,000 BC.
Archaeologists in the country of Georgia discovered a 4,000-year-old burial chamber containing treasure and chariots. The team believes the site dates back to the Early Bronze Age and contained ...
This tiny 4,000-year-old cuneiform tells a big story about past civilizations. ... The area—which contains ruins that date to as far back as 4,000 years ago—was first excavated by British ...
A flint axe was a Flint tool used during prehistoric times to perform a variety of tasks. These were at first just a cut piece of flint stone used as a hand axe but later wooden handles were attached to these axe heads. The stone exhibits a glass-like fracture similar to obsidian, and can be knapped to form large blades. The offcuts were sharp ...
A toppled 4,000-year-old monolith was found at a “sacred site” on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Experts believe the new discovery at the Erimi archeological site offers the oldest sacred ...