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LOT 0290
Bronze Age Ballintober Type Short Sword
1300-800 B.C.
14 7/8 in. (335 grams, 37.8 cm).
Waisted leaf-shaped blade with rounded tip, stepped edges, flared shoulders with holes to accept fixing rivets, flat tang with rivet hole and part of another at the broken end; blade restored; inked legend 'IRELAND / Monaghan'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Believed found Monaghan, Ireland.
with Christie’s New York, 13 December 1980, no.22
Subsequently Olympia Auctions, 26 June 2024, no.120.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
Cf. Burgess, C. & Colquhoun, I., The Swords of Britain, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab. IV, vol.5, Munich, 1988, item 48.
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