Archaeologists in the Starogard Forest District of Pomerania, northern Poland, have recovered a collection of five Bronze Age Axes, which were found by an amateur metal detectorist. Denis Konkol, a history enthusiast, was detecting with official permission (required by law in Poland) when he made the discovery, and informed the local authorities.
The axes are of a type known as tautušiai, which are large axe-heads with a slender handle with elevated edges and a broad blade, which were made in eastern Poland and Lithuania between about 1700 and about 1300 BC. Small groups of these axes are thought to have been buried together for religious reasons, although this is the first such collection uncovered in Poland for about 20 years. More common from the same period, are small amounts of jewelery, also ritually buried.
The axes will be taken to the Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk for study and preservation.
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