1,000 Iron Age axes on view? Not really (6)
I believe the answer is:
mirage
'axes on view? not really' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'1000 iron age' is the wordplay.
'm000 iron' becomes 'mir' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'mir'+'age'='MIRAGE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mirage that I've seen before include "image, not what it seems" , "Optical illusion, in desert perhaps" , "vision" , "You might see this in desert" , "illusory thing" .)