 Author Bantelmann, who wrote the above quotation, wrongly states that the discovery site lay within the town of Kusel, but the axe was actually found in a loam pit on the east slope of the Heibelberg in the area where the "Westpfalzklinikum II" was later built.The incorrect information stems from a mistake made by local historians from Kusel who deposited the axe in the Town and Local History Museum.Had this mistake not been made, the axe's official discovery site would have been in Ruthweiler, and thus on the other side of what was at the time a "Regierungsbezirk" boundary, which in turn would have required the artefact to be kept at a museum in Trier.