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Swedish term or phrase:
holken
English translation:
the socket
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Agneta Pallinder
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Man ser även på holken att den hör till släktet klyvyxor.
This is about axes.....anyone know what is holk(en)? It isn't a nesting box.
This is about axes.....anyone know what is holk(en)? It isn't a nesting box.
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Mar 4, 2022 08:42: Agneta Pallinder changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/9708">Alan Dickey (X)'s</a> old entry - "holken"" to ""from the socket""
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from the socket
It is a so called socketed axe: "A type of tool typical of the later stages of the European Bronze Age in which the body of the tool is hollow so that it can receive a shaped projection at the end of the haft in order to secure the haft to the metal axehead." (From Oxford reference)
In Swedish "holkyxa".
In Swedish "holkyxa".
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