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LOT 1536
British Bronze Age Basal-Looped and Socketed Spearhead
1800-1500 B.C.
5 in. (93 grams, 12.9 cm).
A substantial leaf-shaped blade with lozenge-section midrib, small lateral loop to the base of each blade with lozengiform plaque; chip to socket. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound near Langley, Norfolk, UK.
LiteratureCf. Evans, J., The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881, item 408; and see Davis, R., Basal-Looped Spearheads, BAR International Series no.1497, Oxford, 2006.
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Bronze Age Gold Hair Ring
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A round-section rod coiled and partly flattened to form a hair ornament. 5.93 grams, 13 mm
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Extremely Large Bronze Age Pin with Knop Finial
Central Europe, circa 8th century B.C.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
Round-section shank with bulb to the upper end with incised chevrons and ribbing, narrow neck, biconvex knop finial with median hatched band. 205 grams, 83 cm
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Bronze Age Pair of Spiral Bracelets
Circa 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Each formed of flat-section rod with raised median rib decorated with diagonally hatched bands and tapering finials; one bracelet with incised hatched decoration to the finials, the other with panels of incised herringbone decoration interspersed with panels of hatching. 221 grams total, 75 mm each
Ex private collection, Walton on Thames, UK, 1970s. From the private collection of John Lawton, Surrey, UK.
