Metal detectorists have made a "remarkable" discovery unearthing two Bronze Age axe heads on land owned by a farmer in Wiltshire. Kay Stevenson, from Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire ...

Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service Despite thousands of years in the ground, many of the axe heads still had a shiny patina It dates to the late Bronze Age, between 1000BC and 800BC ...

A metal detectorist has told a treasure inquest how finding a hoard of Bronze Age axe heads in a field was a once in a ...

A metal detectorist has told a treasure inquest how finding a hoard of Bronze Age axe heads in a field was a ...

I could see green colour from more axe heads pocking through." Read next: Finder thought Bronze Age broken bracelet was Allen key Read next: Gold Roman ring dating back to the first century found ...

This follows the important discovery of six bronze socketed axe heads which were unearthed by ... Both axe types date from the British Late Bronze Age, approximately 1,000-800BC.

BRONZE AGE BOY:That’s magic dad. BRONZE AGE FATHER:A bronze axe head. That’s real magic. NARRATOR:Its 4,000 years ago and new people have arrived in Britain bringing lots of new ideas with them.

That's amazing. The axe head is then plunged into cold water to harden it. Oh, wow! My first Bronze Age tool. Who would have thought that you could have turned rocks into beautiful metal objects ...