Mounted to the axehead, it didn't melt!
March 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mounted to the axehead, it didn't melt!
Jadeitite Axehead • Donegal
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Jadeitite Axehead • Donegal
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
This week on #findsfriday we have An Early Iron Age copper alloy linear-decorated socketed axehead, found in or near Oldbury Castle hillfort, Cherhill.
September 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This week on #findsfriday we have An Early Iron Age copper alloy linear-decorated socketed axehead, found in or near Oldbury Castle hillfort, Cherhill.
A rare survival from Neolithic Cumbria some 5,000 years ago!
A polished greenstone axehead, quarried in the Langdales, with its original wooden handle preserved!
Found at Ehenside Tarn in 1869, it is the only hafted Neolithic axe known from England to date!
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A polished greenstone axehead, quarried in the Langdales, with its original wooden handle preserved!
Found at Ehenside Tarn in 1869, it is the only hafted Neolithic axe known from England to date!
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
August 28, 2026 at 3:39 PM
A rare survival from Neolithic Cumbria some 5,000 years ago!
A polished greenstone axehead, quarried in the Langdales, with its original wooden handle preserved!
Found at Ehenside Tarn in 1869, it is the only hafted Neolithic axe known from England to date!
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A polished greenstone axehead, quarried in the Langdales, with its original wooden handle preserved!
Found at Ehenside Tarn in 1869, it is the only hafted Neolithic axe known from England to date!
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
This is the most incredible Bronze Age axehead I know - and I have seen a lot of Bronze Age axes: a jumping cat.
From the palace of Malia, Crete, ca. 1800-1700 BC. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology
From the palace of Malia, Crete, ca. 1800-1700 BC. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology
November 15, 2024 at 9:41 PM
This is the most incredible Bronze Age axehead I know - and I have seen a lot of Bronze Age axes: a jumping cat.
From the palace of Malia, Crete, ca. 1800-1700 BC. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology
From the palace of Malia, Crete, ca. 1800-1700 BC. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology
not a single axehead to be found lol oops (baldurs gate 3 karlach)
December 30, 2023 at 7:31 AM
not a single axehead to be found lol oops (baldurs gate 3 karlach)
3rd April 2005
A Neolithic flint axehead. It is a complete flint axehead, with some recent damage exposing medium grey flint under medium red-brown staining.
circa 3500BC - 2200BC
finds.org.uk/database/art...
A Neolithic flint axehead. It is a complete flint axehead, with some recent damage exposing medium grey flint under medium red-brown staining.
circa 3500BC - 2200BC
finds.org.uk/database/art...
April 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM
3rd April 2005
A Neolithic flint axehead. It is a complete flint axehead, with some recent damage exposing medium grey flint under medium red-brown staining.
circa 3500BC - 2200BC
finds.org.uk/database/art...
A Neolithic flint axehead. It is a complete flint axehead, with some recent damage exposing medium grey flint under medium red-brown staining.
circa 3500BC - 2200BC
finds.org.uk/database/art...
Tony Cragg, Axehead, 1982
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125976
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125976
September 12, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Tony Cragg, Axehead, 1982
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125976
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125976
Bronze axehead from Semiyarka, a c. 1600 BC site in the Kazakh Steppe.
Evidence for complex metallurgy and a dedicated industrial zone suggests the site was a centre of the Central Asian metal trade: perhaps a kind of Bronze Age steppe urbanism.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Evidence for complex metallurgy and a dedicated industrial zone suggests the site was a centre of the Central Asian metal trade: perhaps a kind of Bronze Age steppe urbanism.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
April 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Bronze axehead from Semiyarka, a c. 1600 BC site in the Kazakh Steppe.
Evidence for complex metallurgy and a dedicated industrial zone suggests the site was a centre of the Central Asian metal trade: perhaps a kind of Bronze Age steppe urbanism.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Evidence for complex metallurgy and a dedicated industrial zone suggests the site was a centre of the Central Asian metal trade: perhaps a kind of Bronze Age steppe urbanism.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
#FindsFriday
🪨🔥A collection of burnt Mesolithic stone tools found together. A scraper, projectile point and a tranchet axehead. Evidence of ritual/ceremony.
#Archaeology #Mesolithic #Prehistory #Wirral
🪨🔥A collection of burnt Mesolithic stone tools found together. A scraper, projectile point and a tranchet axehead. Evidence of ritual/ceremony.
#Archaeology #Mesolithic #Prehistory #Wirral
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#FindsFriday
🪨🔥A collection of burnt Mesolithic stone tools found together. A scraper, projectile point and a tranchet axehead. Evidence of ritual/ceremony.
#Archaeology #Mesolithic #Prehistory #Wirral
🪨🔥A collection of burnt Mesolithic stone tools found together. A scraper, projectile point and a tranchet axehead. Evidence of ritual/ceremony.
#Archaeology #Mesolithic #Prehistory #Wirral
😻😻😻MURDER KITTY AXEHEAD!😻😻😻
This is the most incredible Bronze Age axehead I know - and I have seen a lot of Bronze Age axes: a jumping cat.
From the palace of Malia, Crete, ca. 1800-1700 BC. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology
From the palace of Malia, Crete, ca. 1800-1700 BC. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology
November 15, 2024 at 11:06 PM
😻😻😻MURDER KITTY AXEHEAD!😻😻😻
🪨🪓Not all Bronze Age axeheads were made from bronze. A classic axehead in purple stone 75x60mm, just as effective.
#Archaeology #BronzeAge #Prehistory #Wirral
#Archaeology #BronzeAge #Prehistory #Wirral
March 21, 2026 at 4:28 PM
🪨🪓Not all Bronze Age axeheads were made from bronze. A classic axehead in purple stone 75x60mm, just as effective.
#Archaeology #BronzeAge #Prehistory #Wirral
#Archaeology #BronzeAge #Prehistory #Wirral
C.R.T.F. vs Axehead
September 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
C.R.T.F. vs Axehead
@tessmachling.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @mattpope.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social @peterreavill.bsky.social & others
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, April 2026.
'Let everyone else enjoy it'.
(*BBC News*, report, *The Forester*, report & video)
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, April 2026.
'Let everyone else enjoy it'.
(*BBC News*, report, *The Forester*, report & video)
May 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
@tessmachling.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @mattpope.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social @peterreavill.bsky.social & others
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, April 2026.
'Let everyone else enjoy it'.
(*BBC News*, report, *The Forester*, report & video)
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, April 2026.
'Let everyone else enjoy it'.
(*BBC News*, report, *The Forester*, report & video)
#FindsFriday this lovely, polished flint axehead was recently found on the beach at in St. Clement by a walker. #neolithic
November 29, 2024 at 8:56 AM
#FindsFriday this lovely, polished flint axehead was recently found on the beach at in St. Clement by a walker. #neolithic
This week on #findsfriday we have a Polished Neolithic axehead, 3500-2100 BC, probably made of greenstone, with damage at the butt end, from Luckington, Wiltshire.
October 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This week on #findsfriday we have a Polished Neolithic axehead, 3500-2100 BC, probably made of greenstone, with damage at the butt end, from Luckington, Wiltshire.
This is a great kit, I really enjoyed painting mine!
#nerdlings
#nerdlings
March 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM
This is a great kit, I really enjoyed painting mine!
#nerdlings
#nerdlings
When you suddenly come across a stone, that doesn't look natural 🥰
A stunning stone from
2nd September 2007
An unpolished flaked axehead, dating from Mesolithic - Neolithic.
But certain characteristics support a Neolithic date.
8300BC - 2100BC
finds.org.uk/database/art...
A stunning stone from
2nd September 2007
An unpolished flaked axehead, dating from Mesolithic - Neolithic.
But certain characteristics support a Neolithic date.
8300BC - 2100BC
finds.org.uk/database/art...
September 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
When you suddenly come across a stone, that doesn't look natural 🥰
A stunning stone from
2nd September 2007
An unpolished flaked axehead, dating from Mesolithic - Neolithic.
But certain characteristics support a Neolithic date.
8300BC - 2100BC
finds.org.uk/database/art...
A stunning stone from
2nd September 2007
An unpolished flaked axehead, dating from Mesolithic - Neolithic.
But certain characteristics support a Neolithic date.
8300BC - 2100BC
finds.org.uk/database/art...
🪨Neolithic small pointed end flint axehead/elongate chisel tool 80mmx51mm. In the style of the Michelsberg Culture most probably used for small scale wood working. The earliest farmers would have been wealthy people, trading their knowledge & tools #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral
March 6, 2026 at 12:18 PM
🪨Neolithic small pointed end flint axehead/elongate chisel tool 80mmx51mm. In the style of the Michelsberg Culture most probably used for small scale wood working. The earliest farmers would have been wealthy people, trading their knowledge & tools #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral
Another fabulous find from this day, 2006.
An incomplete Neolithic polished flint axehead.
Every year I return, just in case the rest of it surfaces.
An incomplete Neolithic polished flint axehead.
Every year I return, just in case the rest of it surfaces.
April 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Another fabulous find from this day, 2006.
An incomplete Neolithic polished flint axehead.
Every year I return, just in case the rest of it surfaces.
An incomplete Neolithic polished flint axehead.
Every year I return, just in case the rest of it surfaces.
A Viking axehead found in the River Colne raises more questions than it answers.
The hole in the blade comes from centuries underwater, not combat. Some archaeologists think it may have been deliberately placed in the river as an offering rather than accidentally lost.
The hole in the blade comes from centuries underwater, not combat. Some archaeologists think it may have been deliberately placed in the river as an offering rather than accidentally lost.
September 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM
A Viking axehead found in the River Colne raises more questions than it answers.
The hole in the blade comes from centuries underwater, not combat. Some archaeologists think it may have been deliberately placed in the river as an offering rather than accidentally lost.
The hole in the blade comes from centuries underwater, not combat. Some archaeologists think it may have been deliberately placed in the river as an offering rather than accidentally lost.