The primal museum in Diever can add a special piece to its collection. The museum, which focuses on the time of prehistory in the Netherlands, may receive a 50,000 -year -old fist ax on 13 September.
“It was of course fantastic news when we heard that we were getting the fist ax,” says Bart Friso, board member of the Oermuseum. “In the museum, the ax will soon be located next to the Havelterpunt”, a spearhead that comes from the same time. “
The relevant fist ax was found in May last year by 12-year-old Tim Kop from The Hague. With his class, Kop visited Frederiksoord that day and during a walk over the Holtingerveld he found a very special stone.
This special stone turned out to be a 50,000 year old fist ax, from the time that Neanderthals still lived in Drenthe. “The ax ax is sometimes called the Swiss pocket knife of the primeval times,” says Friso. “For example, it was used to make tools, to skin animals or to chop small trees.”
The presentation of the ax will take place on 13 September. Tim Kop then hands the ax to Ernest Mols, Multiple Dutch Making Champion Fist Bijl, who receives him for the museum. The museum gets the ax on loan, which means that Tim is still the owner of the ax.
“In practice, that loan is for unlimited time,” explains Friso. “We now make a 3D print of the Bijl for Tim, as proof that he is the official finder.