A Scottish metal detectorist unearthed a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age axe head in three pieces, reuniting the fragments after days of searching. Experts believe the axe head, found in Aberdeenshire, offers a glimpse into the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age in local communities. That determination helped the Scot to find three pieces of a Bronze Age metal axe head in his family’s field over the course of multiple days. “There was the axe head, I knew immediately what it was,” he said. Experts believe that the axe is from the early Bronze Age, and is likely between 3,800 and 4,200 years old.