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My detecting buddy is on a roll he's found some great finds lately, this lovely hammered and a copper axe head?
Can anyone clarify if it is a copper axe and what coin and date it is please.

Looks like early bronze aged flat axe to me (awaiting to be corrected by chef :) )

it's definitely looks like a bronze age axe ;)

And An edward 1st penny London mint

..and a 12 inch ruler as well   ;D ;D

lovely finds there, well done

Nope no correction from me your spot on as far as I can tell ;)

Thank you for your insight. :)
Just to clarify for me..the axe would be bronze not copper?

It would need spectral analyses to be certain but as it's from the UK, and from the west side, then it's 99.9% certain to be a copper alloy rather than pure copper, there was a Copper Age (Chalcolithic) but this was very short lived and the time in took for these "fashions" to reach these shores from Iraq/Iran and the Balkans the Bronze Age caught up with it especially as Britain was one of the best resources for tin ;)

Thank you Chef, much appreciated.  :)

Well spotted Alan you have eyes of a hawk! But you missed the kitchen paper ha ha.

nice finds

That's what I said, he's on a lucky streak jammy bugger. 😝

The earliest Irish type of flat axes were copper only and the process of adding tin to create bronze probably was done in France later ...As two ores were shipped into europe and made into continental type bronze weapons..Then shipped back to the British I