In the coffin with the skeleton are flint arrow-heads, a spear-head, also of flint, and perhaps the stone head of a battle-axe, the wooden portions of these weapons having long since mouldered away.

A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their appearance in battle array at the end of the street.

The battle axe is usually an arm-length weapon borne in one or both hands.