A group of Bronze Age Socketed hammers / beating fists from the Lower Danube and Northern Black Sea Area

The article discusses a group of three Late Bronze Age objects, whose functionality has been subject to various interpretations. A new identification as specialized socketed hammers or beating fists for sheet metal working and bronze vessel production is proposed. Thus the range of specialized metalworkers’ tools enlarged by a type that so far was apparently missing from the archaeological record of southeastern Europe.