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What is that axe? Is that a huge wooden handle mounted in portrait, connected to another thicker normalways handle?
I can't work out the handle either. It's a socketed axe, so it can be fitted to different hafts, but this seems unwieldy. Maybe it's used for driving downwards, using the weight of the haft?
Here's a brief video about axes at Must Farm by one of the archeologists.
I does look weird. Maybe the wooden block is a counterweight to the axe head, and you use it by horizontally slamming it.
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