But you have to remember that what is now countryside was once almost certainly wooded. Just because it's a field now doesn't mean it was then, so to say that it was found in a field and so can't be a tree-felling axe is a little daft.

For me it would have to be found in a neolithic farming context to even start to qualify as a farm implement rather than a tree-felling axe.

Also, remember the size of some of the stones used as hammers in the copper mines weigh over 5 kilos. They believe they may have swung these underarm .... no shit sherlock!

Don't you find Carolines book to have a considerable number of innacuracies in it?

She can't seem to measure her henges for one.