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LOT 1278
Bronze Age British Socketted Axehead
LATE BRONZE AGE, 1200-800 B.C.
3 1/8 in. (160 grams, 79 mm).
The outer faces decorated with three parallel lines, single side loop and convex cutting edge; socket chipped at one side. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound in Norfolk before 1990.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
See Pendleton, Colin F., Bronze Age Metalwork in Northern East Anglia, BAR British Series 279, 1999, fig.9, nos.H7.15 and H7.19, for very similar examples.
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