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LOT 1149
Bronze Age British Looped and Socketted Spearhead
1500-900 B.C.
5 1/4 in. (64 grams, 13.5 cm).
A small leaf-shaped blade with lozenge-section midrib; two small lateral loops.
Provenance
Found Cambridgeshire, UK, 2000s.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Evans, J., The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881, item 395; Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, item 140.
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