Margin ax
The marginal ridge ax is a hatchet shape mainly from the early and middle Bronze Age in Central Europe.
The bronze edging ax can be derived from the flat ax that was already used (made of copper ) in the Neolithic . In contrast to this, the long sides of the edge ridge ax are accompanied by raised ridges. This made the metal ax more secure in the wooden shaft. This probably consisted of a knee wood .
Edge ridge axes are considered to be the leading form of the Bronze Age levels A and B according to Reinecke and I. according to Montelius ( Early Bronze Age or Early Barrow Bronze Age, among others in the Sögel-Wohlde district ).
In the course of the Bronze Age, the heel and spout ax probably developed from the edge ridge ax .
Subtypes
- Langquaid type ( [1] picture)
- Type ash
- Crailsheim type
- Type Neyruz
Other bronze ax types
Flat ax ( Pestrup burial ground )
Heel ax (Dornsode)
literature
- Friedrich Laux : The axes and hatchets in Lower Saxony. Part 1. Flat, margin and heel axes. In: Prehistoric bronze finds. Abt. 9, Vol. 23, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-515-07177-6
- Abraham Lissauer: The type maps of the flat and edge axes , Commission for prehistoric type maps , printed by Unger Berlin, 1904, (digitized at Archive.org)
