British Bronze Age Looped and Socketted Axehead

12TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.

3 in. (136 grams, 78 mm).

A bronze looped and socketted axehead of Type Meldreth variant Aylsham with broad cupped mouth and gently curved cutting edge.

Provenance

Alexander Cotton collection, New Forest, Hampshire, UK, 1970-1980.
Dr D.G.collection, 1990s-2019.

Literature

Cf. Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B., The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab. IX, vol.7, Munich, 1981,
pl.83 (1242).

CONDITION

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