The two flat copper axes were found in the River Ljubljanica in proximity to the pile-dwellings settlements at Hočevarica and Blatna Brezovica (cf. Fig. 155). Like the stone axes in Fig. 160, they are presumably associated with one of these sites from the 4th millennium BC and thus rank among the earliest copper objects in Slovenia. Conservators removed the patina on one side to reveal the axes’ original shine (bottom).

Turk, Peter and Turk, Matija, 2019: The Earliest Stories from the Crossroads, Ljubljana, Fig. 193, pp. 152, 247.