That's what's interesting to me. Even after a fire, wouldn't someone want to go scrape through the remains to find stuff like that?
To me that seems like that might lean towards a deliberate fire / untimely fate for the inhabitants from an enemy, who might not know where that axe would have been stored.
Or maybe the fire was understood divine punishment for something arbitrary and digging through the site would anger the gods even more. With out clear evidence its hard to say anything about the cause.
To me that seems like that might lean towards a deliberate fire / untimely fate for the inhabitants from an enemy, who might not know where that axe would have been stored.