Cool find! I hafto say i share your hope about the axe. I have found some really nice (in my view) iron and viking age finds put that the museums have alot of and i guess my finds now lays in a drawr or in a box somewere in the museums storing facilitets. In the dark just like dark i recently slaves them from.
The same fate befalls many artefacts found here in Finland. The National Board of Antiquities has too few resources to research metal detectorists' finds, so they can remain in boxes for years before they are researched.
