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LOT 1672
British Bronze Age Looped and Socketted Spearhead
1500-900 B.C.
3 7/8 in. (26.5 grams, 98 mm).
Side-looped spearhead with round-section midrib, leaf-shaped blade, tapering socket and lateral loops. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Monmouthshire, South East Wales, UK, in 2017.
From the collection of a Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Evans, J., The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881, item 394, Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, item 140.
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