Five huge Bronze Age axes have turned up in a field in Boest near Nørre Snede in Jutland, Denmark

The axes date from 1600 BCE, which makes them one of the earliest Bronze Age finds in Denmark.

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The five bronze axes are each up to 30 cm (12") in size and contain as much as a kilo of pure metal.

The owner of the field, Esben Arildskov, had asked his brother-in-law to survey the area with a metal detector before he started planting Christmas trees. He wanted to make sure that he didn't destroy anything historic; a decision that turned out to be very wise.

His brother-in-law, Bent Rasmussen, found two axes and when the professional archaeologists came to the site they found another three within a very small area.

"From that period, around 1600 BCE, we only know of five other axes that were spread across northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden. But finding five axes in one place is completely unheard of and ground-breaking in the world of archaeology