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LOT 1156
Bronze Age British Palstave Axehead
1400-1150 B.C.
4 1/4 in. (168 grams, 10.7 cm).
With leaf-shaped lateral flanges, mid-stop with deep ledge, flared blade with curved edge; butt absent.
Provenance
Found Cambridgeshire, UK, 2000s.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Schmidt, P.K. and Burgess, C.B., The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab.IX, vol.7, Munich, 1981, item 739.
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