Writing on social media, the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Warsaw described the find as “a sensation”.

Continuing, they wrote: “Last week in Józefów, near the Polish capital, a flint axe was found during gardening, probably related to a Corded Ware settlement dating from the Neolithic period.”

Thought to be 4,000-years-old, the object was handed over to authorities who now say they plan on “recognizing the honesty of the finder”.

Alternatively known by historians as the Battle Axe culture or the Single Grave culture, the Corded Ware culture earned its name for the cord-like patterns that became inexorably associated with their coarse pottery.

Found in Northern Europe, from the Rhine to the Volga, the culture thrived between 3000 BC and 2350 BC.

Just last month, a 6,000-year-old copper axe was unearthed in eastern Poland in Siennica forest. Measuring approximately 14.5 cm in length, and weighing 678 grams, the axe is believed to have been a votive offering to a deity and could have been brought to the Lublin region from afar afield as the Eastern Alps or the western section of the Carpathian Basin.