During the Bronze Age, Europe was unfamiliar with shaft-hole axes (cf. Fig. 196). In Slovenia, they only reappeared at the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age. The most common European axes at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC were those with flanges (right). In the mid-2nd millennium BC, they were replaced by winged axes with medial wings (centre, also cf. Fig. 248), while the winged axes with butt wings (left) were typical of the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age.