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Farmer says he thought 4,000-year-old axeheads were 'scrap'A farmer in Co Westmeath has said he thought 4,000-year-old Early Bronze Age axeheads found in his field were old horse ploughs, or scrap. Thomas Dunne said the discovery was made after a piece of machinery fell off during silage cutting on his field in Coralstown. The National Museum of Ireland issued an appeal earlier this month, after the axeheads were sent anonymously to the museum at the end of June. Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Philip Boucher Hayes, Mr Dunne said: "We were cutting silage in a field when I felt a piece of steel come off the mower. "We were afraid it would go into something else, so we got a man with metal detector to go and look for it. "He found these under a row of beech trees. "We thought they were just bits of old horse ploughs or scrap. We could have thrown them back into the ditch the very same!" More: https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2024/0725/1461785-axe-heads/ |
Posted by ryaner28th July 2024ce |
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