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THE AGE of a “Viking axe” found near Pershore ... They were all but ready to head home on September 23 last year when his detector came up with an iron signal. He said: “Nobody in the ...
Credit: ITV Channel TV In January, metal detectorist Shane Le Page found four Iron Age axe heads on the same site, dating back more than 2,800 years. Whilst axe heads have been found in Jersey and ...
The letter stated that the axe-heads were discovered in County Westmeath using a metal detector. A photo released by the museum appears to show the Bronze Age items ... The flat axe-heads were ...
many of the axe heads still had a shiny patina It dates to the late Bronze Age, between 1000BC and 800BC, "within 200 years of what we formally recognise as the beginning of the Iron Age", said ...
The axe heads are believed to be from the late Bronze or early Iron Age and will now be assessed by experts. Josh, who lives in Millom, said: “I’m still excited, still buzzing. It was our ...
A METAL detector enthusiast unearthed a rare Bronze Age axe head blade. Fifty-two-year-old ... She said: "It is a copper alloy flat axe from the early to middle Bronze Age, dated from 1850 ...
Details of a series of pits dating as far back as the Iron Age have been revealed on ... Neolithic and Mesolithic flint tools, a Bronze Age axe head fragment and part of a Bronze Age rapier ...
A Scottish metal detectorist unearthed a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age axe head in three pieces, reuniting the fragments after days of searching. Experts believe the axe head, found in Aberdeenshire ...
A retired Hartlepool nurse found an axe head dating back 3,500 years to the Bronze Age while out in Northumberland earlier this month. Philip Pugh, 60, made the discovery using a metal detector in ...
The Bronze Age axe-heads appear to have been packaged ... section is located in Dublin's Kildare Street. The flat axe-heads were received by staff at the end of June. Archaeological experts ...