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]

Provenance

Found in Norfolk before 1990.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.

Literature

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.

CONDITION

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