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Yeah. That's a good bit. I am more than certain that this cache will be detailed in the Stone Axe Project I mentioned earlier, which I will start reading next week.

The project details every recorded finding of an axe and all the known axe factories. I am very interested to see how 'landscape relevent' they go and how much they just be 'all accademic' about it.

Don't get me wrong on any of this. All these subjects that offer a few, limited, but consistant facts (and there are so many in this field) need speculation. Theories are a must, but none of them can be taken as being the definitive answer. Of course, if you get enough good theories then one of them is likely to be the right one, but we will not be able to say which one it is.

As Henry Ford said*, "I know half my advertising is pointless. Problem is no one can tell me which half."

* I think it was he.

The 3 excavation reports from the Irish database.
The last one has the reference to the cache

http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=1986&County=Kerry&id=3666
http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Kerry&id=3602
http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Kerry&id=3083

My views on the movements of axes are very much coloured by what I have read coupled with my many visits to the Cumbrian monuments.
A couple of days ago Stubob & myself returned from our latest trip. We saw huge stones, massive avenues, circles that seemed totally out of proportion in their size and frequency to the projected population of the area, we stood in an 'Irish henge' and then walked a couple of hundred yards to a 'Yorkshire Henge' the following day we visited a circle with a Derbyshire vibe.
Why so many flavours?
I can't say for sure that the axe trade was driving this but my heart & my head tells me that something major was occuring in the late Neolithic /early Bronze Age in the Cumbrian fells and from all the available information I reckon that the procurement of stone axes was a major ingredient.
What we do know is that Langdale axes are found all over Britain and Ireland, so someone was coming here to collect and distribute them throughout our islands.

"Two guys were looking at some shirts in a shop window.
One said 'That's the one I'd get', when the owner of the shop, a cyclops, came out and kicked his head in."