Massive shaft hole axe B7364. It is long and slender, the edge is curved, and there are marked grooves from the shaft hole to the egg. It has a short stem tube; the neck is round and has a flat collar. There is a raised rib on both card sides. Dark brown patina, much of which was dissolved when the ax was found; some were also removed by the finder in an attempt to polish the axe, especially on the broadsides. There are golden spots where it has been polished. Despite this, the decoration is still visible. About 1 cm from the edge there is a set of three parallel lines, then a border of running spirals and another set of parallel four or five parallel lines, starting and ending at the first and last spirals in the border below. There are possibly more lines below the spirals. This decoration is identical on both sides of the blade. The raised areas on both card sides were flanked by a line and a faint pattern of triangles. There is a triangular area of ​​decoration below each shaft hole, consisting of parallel lines and beads. The shaft tubes were decorated with parallel lines and one tube also had a pattern of triangles. The neck was decorated with spiral borders with a line pattern and pearls below, between and above the spirals. The collar has a wave pattern below and lines and pearls on top. The neck would have had a line and bead pattern, indicated by the remaining patina around the collar. There are three identical parallels in Scandinavia: an ax from Nibstrup Mose, Denmark; from Villie, Scania, Sweden; from Lundby, Slöinge, Sweden. The ax is also similar to Montelius: Minnen fig. 866, 870 and 873. Johansen’s type C. Length: 34.5 cm, Width: 12.8 cm above the edge, Weight: 2248 g.

Context:
Found in or near a body of water in 1922 in connection with ditch digging; The ax was found in clay under approx. 1 m of soil in a marshy area. Water gushed up when it was found. The clay was blue with irr. The location is a field that slopes east towards a small water, Rimbareidjørna, between the seat house and a chapel; approx. 40 m from the chapel. There is a spring to the south of the discovery site. The archaeologist Johs Bøe visited the site shortly after the ax was discovered, but the ditch had then been filled in and the field sown.

Location:
Rimbareid (gnr. 62/3), Fitjar Hordaland

Date:
Such axes are dated to the Early Bronze Age Period 2.