Spout ax
The socketed ax is a Beilform of bronze or iron , resulting from the cloth Beilen and paragraph Beilen the early and middle Bronze Age has developed and into the Iron Age was used.
Shaft
The shaft axes were made using knee wood . Many Bronze Age grommet axes also have a cast eyelet, which was probably used to attach the ax to the shaft. Eyelets of this type can also be found in the previously common heel and rag axes.
History and Development
The first examples can be found from the Middle Bronze Age along with other hatchet shapes. They are then used almost exclusively during the late Bronze Age. Its wide distribution area has its focus in Central and Northern Europe. The bronze axes are often decorated in the cast. The decorative elements range from simple, straight lines through curved lines, arrow-shaped and diamond-shaped patterns to more complex decorative shapes. However, it is not possible to assign certain ornamental shapes to an area. Reasons for this could be in a widely branched trade as well as in a standardized production.
At the beginning of iron processing there were no grommet axes made of iron, but axes made of bronze were still used in the early Iron Age. The first axes made of iron are flat axes in the form of so-called arm hatchets . It was not until the late Hallstatt period to the early Latène period that forged iron grommet axes appeared.
Some of the finds from the Middle Ages, which look similar to the Latene Age spout axes, are hoes used in field work. They differ from the finds from the Latène period by their round spout. Almost without exception, the axes of the Latène period have an angular socket.
literature
- Kurt Kippert: The axes and hatchets in central West Germany II (prehistoric bronze finds) CH Beck, Munich 1984. ISBN 3406087167