“I’m all electric,” says archaeologist Constanze Rassmann, the curator of Museum Midtjylland in Denmark.
Five huge Bronze Age axes have turned up in a field in Boest near Nørre Snede in Jutland, the museum writes in a press release.
And when they say huge, they mean huge. The axes are around twice the size of those usually found, explains Rassmann, who doesn’t hesitate to compare the find to winning Champions League.
“Five such Bronze Age axes have been found in all Northern Europe to date, and then we go and five more in one go. That’s fantastic,” says the enthusiastic museum curator according to tv2.dk.
The axes date from 1600 BCE, which makes them one of the earliest Bronze Age finds in Denmark. Read more.
DJL stocks up on a few T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted pretties (Jutland by Selima Hill, Deep Lane by Mark Doty, 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson, and Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry) and throws in Andrew McMillan’s Physical for good measure. Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric still in the post.
