The axe head was found near Castle Sween, North Knapdale. It was made during the Neolithic period and is some 5000 years old. With a wooden haft, the axe would have been used as a multipurpose ...

His intuition was spot on, it turned out, as archaeologists quickly identified the smooth stone as a fragment of a 4,500-year ...

This axe head was found by a friend of mine on the banks of the river Stour, after it had been dredged in 2003. ... chalk and crushed shell inside it that had been used in the casting process.

The Bronze Age axe-heads appear to have been packaged using a flapjack box Two axe-heads, which are believed to be more than 4,000 years old, have been sent to the National Museum of Ireland by an ...

The small axe head was excavated along with other artefacts including food scraps and tools in the early 1990s, but was only recently singled out and dated.

THE world’s oldest battle-axe has been found in Australia. And we’re not talking mother-in-laws: It’s the first known blade that had a power-boosting handle attached.