At the British Museum on Friday, I managed to find a near-likeness to my stone axe and get a look at a small portion of the Staffordshire Hoard. I had rather been hoping for a nice old-fashioned range of glass cases with hundreds of different, carefully-labeled axes, but of course the whole gallery had been rearranged, and there were only one or
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Interesting about your axe. It rather boggles my mind that you have a possibly many millenia old axe in your house. Is there anyone who could give you a more accurate answer on its age? It does look like the one in the case.
I really like that sword pommel.
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There were about 50 sword pommels in the actual find, but they only had one or two out. I can't wait to see it when the whole thing is cleaned up.
The axe rather amazes me too, especially since I've had it hanging around here for ages without really noticing it.
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Also, I covet a stone axe now.
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I found a lot of stone axes on eBay, when I was trying to find out about mine. It's a very useful thing to have - if some disaster hurls us back into the Stone Age, I will be ready!
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