Radiocarbon dating found the axes were made between 3.8 and 3.5 ka BP, a period bridging the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age. This places them among the earliest bronze artifacts ever discovered in Denmark. Bronze axes from this era are so rare only 5 of them have been found before in Denmark, Sweden and northern Germany. That means the Boest find has in one fell swoop doubled the number of these Bronze Age axes in the archaeological record of northern Europe. When you consider that
Bent Rasmussen and his brother, enlisted by Bent during excavations to cover more ground with their metal detectors, found another 4 smaller axes and a spear tip, it’s clear that this field in Boest was an important place during the early Bronze Age.

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