Here is a link to a cool find in Wiltshire, UK: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/72455#respond

I suspect that the anvil has 2 bases/hardies is so that as one striking surface wears down it can be turned 90 degrees and you get a fresh striking surface.  Since the base is square I don't think you could get much use out of it as a horn.

The palstave axe dates to the middle bronze age which in the UK is about 1500 BC.  So, that anvil was cast 3500 years ago and could still be used today.

"By hammer and hand all arts do stand."

 

That is a pretty cool find, wish those items could talk.

I can’t control the wind. All I can do is adjust my sails. ~Semper Paratus~

That is pretty cool. Thanks. 

Not just those items but a whole bunch. Tools like houses, "If only those walls could talk". 

 

Cool! Thanks for sharing George!

They've got really nice pics on the Wiltshire Museum's Facebook page too. Seeing that tiny anvil makes you feel awfully privileged though. He was working on an anvil maybe four inches square, and to think of the investment that must have been for him.

After wandering around the hoard rabbit hole a while one consensus is the smith did mostly jewelry as there were traces of silver and gold embedded in the anvil. I'd sure like to ask what they think that big chisel was used for.

Thanks George, a really good read and enjoyable rabbit warren exploring. 

Frosty The Lucky.