In addition to winged axes, the bronze socketed ones were also used in the Late Bronze Age, from the 13th century BC onwards, which spread to central Europe from the east. They have a tubular socket into which the haft was inserted and secured with straps passed through the eye at the side. The examples from the River Ljubljanica (11th–10th centuries BC) are later variants of socketed axes, richly decorated with ribbed and punched motifs.