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Archaeological Collection

Mould for a shaft-hole axe and axe

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