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| Submitted by | Blingo_von_Trumpenstein |
| Added | Jun 25 2012 |
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Description
Bulgarian copper axe outside the Great Orme copper mine. Adze one end, axe the other. Possibly 5,000yo.
Posted Comments:
Blingo von Trumpenstein (2012-06-28)
Here's a pic of a similar axe in the Ashmolean Museum: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=73331&orderby=
No obvious collaring on my axe. Black through long term water patination and some Victorian cleaning.
No obvious collaring on my axe. Black through long term water patination and some Victorian cleaning.
Blingo von Trumpenstein (2012-09-17)
Just discovered that approx 90% of copper used for bronze smelting in Europe came from this mine in the Bronze Age (and Chalcolithic) so there is a high probability that this axe has come home from Bulgaria . . .
davidmorgan (2012-09-17)
Interesting that you should bring this up, Blingo. The "Copper Age" is a debatable era. Not quite in the smelting times, I think, because a lot of Middle Eastern copper items were just beaten. As you say, the Balkans are an interesting transition area for exactly this (possibly after Anatolia, although the recent finds in Serbia/ex-Yugoslav states are pretty interesting - only opening up now since the modern political changes).
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