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LOT 1583
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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LOT 1583
British Bronze Age 'Welby Type' Looped and Socketted Axehead
Sold for (Inc. bp): £176
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