Archaeologists report a rare bronze axe found in Switzerland dating to about 1500 B.C., raising questions about Bronze Age ritual offerings.
When the National Museum of Ireland received a parcel containing two ancient axe heads in June, its researchers were stumped. Besides an unsigned note from an anonymous sender, the artifacts came with ...
The axe head was found by metal detectorist Paul Rowlands A rare Bronze-age axe head, thought to be more than 3,500 years old, has gone on display after being found by a metal detectorist. Paul ...
Archaeologists in Poland recently made an exciting discovery from the Bronze Age. A metal detectorist named Denis Konkol was exploring the forests of Kociewie when he came across five bronze axes ...
Early Bronze Age axe heads found by a metal detectorist in south Wales have been declared treasure by a coroner. Paul Howells made the discovery at a field in Coity, Bridgend, on 8 May 2015. The hoard ...
The 13-year-old discovered the cache on her third metal-detecting outing. Courtesy of Colin Hardwick Milly Hardwick was searching for buried treasure in a field in Hertfordshire, England, when her ...
From British pounds to Croatian kuna, a range of different currencies are used across Europe today. Now, researchers have shed light on what the first common currency in Europe might have been. Their ...
The axe was found at Paimio, not far from Turku in the southwest. Because of the acidity of the soil, once buried, organic materials are rarely preserved in Finland. However, this bronze axe, which ...
An amateur treasure hunter has unearthed a hoard of bronze age axe heads thought to be worth about £80,000. Tom Peirce started combing a field with his metal detector after dropping off a school coach ...
Milly Hardwick, a 13-year-old from Suffolk, England, was out metal-detecting with her father, when they stumbled upon an artifact which they joked could be an axe. The object turned out to be exactly ...
Bronze Age tools and weapons were also found on farmland in Llanharan Early Bronze Age axe heads found by a metal detectorist in south Wales have been declared treasure by a coroner. Paul Howells made ...
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