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from Bell's Mill, Dean, Edinburgh

Axeheads
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These bronze axeheads are from a hoard of five found in the Water of Leith near Bell's Mill at Dean in Edinburgh. The hoard was buried between 950 and 750 BC.

The three socketed axeheads are all different in shape. A wooden handle would have fitted into the axehead's socket. For the two with loops, a thong passed through the loop could also have attached the axehead to the handle.

Between 1000 and 700 BC a great wealth of material was deposited in votive hoards dedicated to the gods. Many of these were deposited in watery places. Such sites may have been seen as boundaries between the human world and the world of the gods, where contact could be made.

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