Archaeological Collection
Mould for a shaft-hole axe and axe
Item name:Mould for a shaft-hole axe and axe
Dating:3rd millennium BC
On display:The Earliest Stories from the Crossroads
Description
Mould for a shaft-hole axe from Dežman pile-dwelling sites near Ig
and a copper shaft-hole axe from an unknown site. The axes with an
elongated hafting hole from the first half of the 3rd millennium BC are
most common in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain. The moulds
unearthed at Dežman pile-dwelling sites near Ig and at Špica suggest that these axes were not imports, but rather locally produced
in the Ljubljansko barje area. Such axes only exceptionally occur to
the west, in northern Italy, and north of here, in the eastern Alps.
Further reading
Turk, Peter and Turk, Matija, 2019: The Earliest Stories
from the Crossroads, Ljubljana, Fig. 196, pp. 155, 247.
On display in the Permanent Exhibition