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LOT 1583

Sold for (Inc. bp): £176

BRITISH BRONZE AGE 'WELBY TYPE' LOOPED AND SOCKETTED AXEHEAD
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 7/8 in. (258 grams, 98 mm).

With convex cutting edge tapering from square body and slightly rounded socket; the socket with one indented band of ornament and a series of indented line ornaments to each side; single lateral loop for attachment to the shaft. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From the private collection of John Fox, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, antiquarian and archaeologist; his collection assembled in the 1950s-1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Pendleton, C.F., Bronze Age Metalwork in East Anglia, BAR British Series 279, Oxford, 1999, item 128, for type; Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B. The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab.IX, vol.7, Munich, 1981, p.221-3.

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