Bronze battleaxe

Bronze battleaxe is a tier 5 free-to-play main-hand weapon for melee, with a high alchemy value of 100 coins. The simplest way for an Ironman to get Bronze battleaxe is to buy it: Corporal Boothe's Armoury in Burthorpe sells it for 52 coins, and 5 other shops stock it too.

“A vicious looking axe.”

Free-to-playTradeable (not for Ironmen)High alch 100 gp

Updated 9 October 2026. Sources from the RuneScape Wiki's drop, shop and recipe data (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), checked 2026-10-09. Item sprite © Jagex.

Ironman verdict

5 monsters drop it. The easiest is Dwarf (level 9, 1/128); the best rate is Ork (level 95), at 5/256, about one every 51 kills. You can also make it yourself: it takes 1 Smithing and gives 30 Smithing XP, using 2 × Bronze bar. Other sources include New Varrock guard captain and Zombie (New Varrock). Making ten takes 20 × Bronze bar and gives 300 Smithing XP. It is worn in the main-hand weapon slot at tier 5 as melee gear; compare it with every other piece on the Main-hand weapons list. Bronze battleaxe is available on free-to-play worlds too. It is tradeable on normal accounts, but an Ironman cannot use the Grand Exchange or trade for it, so the sources on this page are the whole list. High Alchemy turns one into 100 coins, 48 more than the shop price, before the cost of the nature rune.