Hi Don & Gabel,

I have TF no 70 but not 90. Catching sight of this article would be useful.

Laurie tells me that broadband has not yet reached his rural location in Wales and so he sends his apologies for not being able to check in on this forum on a regular basis.

Trees were being cut down and used in buildings long before the advent of the hewing axe. Timber buildings were being constructed in Scotland and Ireland (crannogs) over 3000 years ago just as the iron age roundhouse settlements here in my own village in Hampshire. The axe must be one of the oldest tools with some made from flint, then bronze, then iron.

Regards

Ken Hume