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Old 13th August 2021, 06:37 PM   #22
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re-ren, the axe's haft in your post is not Bronze Age. As noted in the video I posted, wood doesn't survive from that old. Except now some has... at Must Farm.


See below for a better 'reconstruction' — and some just found in an English bog* where the wood actually WAS preserved along with a bunch of (20) socketed axe heads. They attached the head to a branch off the main tree trunk along with a trimmed section of the trunk which formed a bent elbow.



They also found a bunch of other stuff, tools, swords, etc. in remarkable condition. Just a bit of mud keeping them from looking new.

Top: reconstruction
Middle: found haft — they found a bunch just like this.
Bottom: Axe heads.

Edited: Added one they found with an intact haft


*- Must Farm, UK dig.
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