🥇 BANNER How old is it? Celtic?

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Found an old axe head in the woods today. Hoping some experts could give me some clarity. My detecting partner believes it's Celtic. It reads a 55 on the v3i. Thanks for the help 20170219_174357.jpg 20170219_174128.jpg 20170219_174123.jpg
 

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Bronze Age. We need close ups of the broken off part. To me it looks like a "Lappenbeil" but could be wrong. It should date in early to middle urnfield period dating 1200-1050 BC. Great find. :icon_thumright:
Please report to the authorities, it could be a significant find depending on the area you live in.
 

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Added a few pics. We gps'd the location and plan on taking to the museum to see if it's significant.
 

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Bronze Age. We need close ups of the broken off part. To me it looks like a "Lappenbeil" but could be wrong. It should date in early to middle urnfield period dating 1200-1050 BC. Great find. :icon_thumright:
Please report to the authorities, it could be a significant find depending on the area you live in.

Agreed, Bronze Age flat axe!
 

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Added a few pics. We gps'd the location and plan on taking to the museum to see if it's significant.

From what I gather all Bronze Age is significant in Germany!
 

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Looking at the added pics i cancel Lappenbeil. It's a "Randleistenbeil" / flat axe / flanged axe like Crusader stated.
Oh, forgot to mention, Flat axe is the first type of Bronze Age axeheads makes it about 3800 years old. I see a faint border along the stem wich makes me thinking it's an early type of Flanged Axe, still between 1800 to 1500 BC.
 

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Pretty cool plucking something out of the ground from 3800 years ago. Thanks for the info
 

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Nice Bronze Age artifact, I'd agree that it's a broken flanged axe; a step beyond the flat axe and before the winged axe technologically. Cool find, good luck finding more ancient treasures!
 

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Imo, that should be up top. May be normal for you guys over the pond but for me, that's just incredible.
 

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Not normal for me. I come from colorado where you'd be lucky to find a 1800s coin. My 1st hunt here I found a 1765 coin. Then a 1600s wax stamp. This will be hard to top age wise. Maybe I'll find a woolly mammoth tusk. The history here is mind numbing.
 

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Looking at the added pics i cancel Lappenbeil. It's a "Randleistenbeil" / flat axe / flanged axe like Crusader stated.
Oh, forgot to mention, Flat axe is the first type of Bronze Age axeheads makes it about 3800 years old. I see a faint border along the stem wich makes me thinking it's an early type of Flanged Axe, still between 1800 to 1500 BC.

I agree, might be flanged.

However, I'm sticking with the earlier Flat Axe, as many of these have a small raised flange. Not easy to see, but similar to this;
British Museum - flat axe

Note; The Arreton is a flat axe with a kind of small flange, but ''It is very difficult to decide when raised edges of axes officially turn into flanges''
 

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Outstanding historic artifact recovery, congratulations! :occasion14:
 

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absolutely amazing
 

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I agree, might be flanged.

However, I'm sticking with the earlier Flat Axe, as many of these have a small raised flange. Not easy to see, but similar to this;
British Museum - flat axe

Note; The Arreton is a flat axe with a kind of small flange, but ''It is very difficult to decide when raised edges of axes officially turn into flanges''

Ya nailed it. Thanks for the ID. It's exciting.
 

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Ya nailed it. Thanks for the ID. It's exciting.
Yes, as you say, we have a similar period one & you can't find anything much older.....
 

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