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Treasure Hunters Find Bronze Age Axes
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-22-2008

Posted on 01/21/2008 6:45:50 PM PST by blam

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To: Kirkwood
It would not surprise me if these 2 guys get charged with possession of assault weapons.

Now that wouldn't surprise me.

21 posted on 01/21/2008 9:40:35 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: blam

I’ve seen movies. Those can’t be ax heads. Ax heads are huge things with double blades and such. All the cool barbarian movies say so.

Those look like door stop wedges.

On a slightly more serious note...

That’s a lot of metal and work put into that many head splitters. Where, exactly, did Henry Ford’s line originate? Could this have been an early attempt at standardized factory production?


22 posted on 01/21/2008 9:44:37 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv

Must have been a dealership.

Or a factory producing axe heads.


23 posted on 01/21/2008 10:01:03 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s the entire stock from the village blacksmiths shop!


24 posted on 01/21/2008 10:07:49 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: george76; Fred Nerks

“I just hired a new lumberjack, he used to work at the Sahara Forest.”

“You mean the Sahara Desert?”

“Sure — now.”


25 posted on 01/21/2008 10:19:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: blam

That’s where Saddam put ‘em! I knew we find it.


26 posted on 01/21/2008 10:51:55 PM PST by Defiant (Don't be a hostage to Hope.....Arkansas. Vote Fred.)
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To: SunkenCiv; blam
a hoard of bronze age axe heads thought to be worth about £80,000.

I'll bet you could get more than that selling them on Ebay. The United Arab Emirates and the Saudis would probably pay 1500 quid each. After all, they're solid bronze. With a little sharpening, they'd be perfect for the headsmen.

27 posted on 01/22/2008 4:28:38 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Not to discount the sexual prowess of the rabbit, BUT, there's a reason it's not called BUNNY STYLE.)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Archeologists are such dorks! They always assume that finds have something to do with lofty thoughts about man, God and the Universe—when all human history tells us the main things Man cares about are the three ‘S’s...sleep, substenance, and sex.


28 posted on 01/22/2008 6:51:11 AM PST by wildbill
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And beer. You forgot beer. ;’)


29 posted on 01/22/2008 7:21:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv

No I didn’t. Among the best of all sustenance is beer, wine, ale, and various forms of distilled hard spirits.

Being made from fruits and vegetables they are diet healthy and are important in obtaining the other two of the Big “Ss” needed for a successful life: Sex, Sleep and Sex.

(I know, I added Sex twice, but I like Sex after Sleep when I wake up in the morning before I have my beer.)


30 posted on 01/22/2008 2:44:29 PM PST by wildbill
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