If you are in Drenthe with primary school at working week, and you can look for a fist ax, every child hopes that he finds something special. That never works, but Tim Kop of twelve years old succeeded. “In a workbook there were pictures of fist axes and I thought we could find a lot in the field. But apparently that was very difficult.”
Tim visualized where there used to be a house and went looking on his own far from the group. “I saw a point, pulled it out and then I looked a stone. It looked like the pictures. So I went to the leader of my camp and he immediately said” Oh, you have to be careful with that. “
That same evening all the alarm bells went off at the Oermuseum in Diever. Wim van der Wijk of the museum is still surprised when he tells about it. “This puts Zuidwest Drenthe on the map. Fifty years ago a small pointed point was found on the Holtingerveld, but such a fist ax from Tim is of course a top find. This puts the Holtingerveld on the map as the Pompeii of Drenthe.”
The museum would rather not say exactly where the Bijl was found, for fear that happiness seekers will immediately dig the site. But the place is not difficult to reach. “I have been living in Havelte for fifty years and walk over the field every week, including the place where Tim de Bijl has found. I can’t, but Tim picks it up in one go.”
The edited stone is now from Tim, but he gives the ax on loan to the primal museum. In exchange, he gets a replica of his stone back for the collection at home. “I will often come here, but it is a two -hour drive so you don’t just get there.”