What about things like the Aquitanian socketed axes of the Late Bronze Age? My understanding is that by the late Bronze age so much lead was being added to the bronze tools of Erope that they were so soft as to be useless e.g. the Aquitanian socketed axes. Iron, even though soft at the beginning of the Halstatt period was still better as a tool. I could be wrong though, my knowledge of the Bronze Age is limited to Urnfield vehicles (or as I believe a lack of them).
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