Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern ...

saws, ax-adzes, a broad chisel, double hammer) and complete (double ax, knives,
sledgehammer) carpentry/masonry and utilitarian implements. 643
Tool modification in the
hoard is recognized with the double hammer, which in all likelihood was previously a
double adze (Plate 5.24). The shape of both hammer heads is uncharacteristically
rectangular, and the end widths (3.6 and 4 cm) are comparable to the breadths of several
Cypriot double adze blades. The adaptation of this tool further demonstrates the
intentional manipulation and secondary usage of hoarded items.
The Brunnen 212 hoard from Enkomi yielded a plethora of metal-working
remains including balance pans, weights, ingot fragments, and more than three kilograms
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of scrap metal. Yet both broken and whole tools coexist within the hoard. Partial
implements consist of an unidentified tool with a folded socket, two hammer-adzes, and
two chisel (or ax) fragments. The adze-hammers were modified from a double adze and
an ax-adze, emphasizing the adaptability of the double-sided implements (Plate 4.40). A
similar hammer-adze, or more accurately a truncated ax-adze, surfaced in Enkomi’s
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The metallurgical traits of the Brunnen 212 hoard
should not be overlooked or discounted, but surely the hoard’s tools were not intended to
be scrap, judging by the modifications made in creating the hammer-adzes.
The Enkomi Gunnis hoard contained indisputable evidence for metalworking: a
metal mold for a plowshare, a charcoal shovel, and scrap in the form of unusable (?)
broken picks.
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All wood- and stone-working tools, however, were well preserved and
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For photographs of some of these objects, see the hoard listing in Catling 1964, 278-281.
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For Brunnen 212 references: Lagarce, 1971; Hundt 1971; Matthäus 1985, 363ff; Matthäus and
Schumacher-Matthäus 1986, 175.
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For Trésor de Bronzes references: Schaeffer 1952, 37ff, figures 1-4, plates ii-iii; Catling 1964, 286-87.
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For Gunnis hoard references: Catling 1964, 281-282; Matthäus and Schumacher-Matthäus 1986, 174.
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