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01-21-2008, 07:04 PM
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Bronze Age Axes
Take a look at this
Bus driver unearths £80,000 hoard of Bronze Age axe heads with metal detector | the Daily Mail
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01-21-2008, 07:09 PM
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Amazing!
What an incredible historic find. It makes you wonder why they were cached like that. Was an invading force approaching and the smith buried them to keep them from falling into enemy hands? Were they stolen property or part of a burial mound? Interesting questions but I wonder if we'll ever have at least an accurate guess as to the why of it?
Cheers, BDA 
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01-21-2008, 07:14 PM
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Man O Man, thats a good find for sure..Lots of history..Maybe more in the area too.Good read for sure.....Buster....
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01-21-2008, 07:21 PM
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That is one reason this hobby can be so rewarding! And I'm not talking $!
I question the theory of a religious offering. It seems more likely to me an offering would be smaller. Now, hiding weapons for rebellion would seem more plausbile to me. Especially in that quantity. Bronze was an extremely valuable commodity back then to use as a sacrfice, not to mention the time it would have taken to make them.
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01-21-2008, 07:25 PM
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Absolutely fantastic!
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01-21-2008, 07:25 PM
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Quote:
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01-21-2008, 07:30 PM
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It's a safe bet that whoever buried them didn't survive to dig them back up
You're absolutely right, Steve. Nobody would leave something as valuable a bronze axeheads buried in the ground, otherwise.
The fortunes of war, I guess. BDA
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01-21-2008, 07:57 PM
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Oh Man that is fantastic!! Can you even begin to gues wht that felt like? I mean I would have been shaking, Beale.
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