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LOT 0558

Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,415

BRONZE AGE BRONZE BRITISH RAPIER
(Bronze, 360 grams, 71 cm.).

Circa 800-500 BC. A cast bronze rapier with narrow lozenge-section blade, flanged grip and pierced discoid guard.

PROVENANCE:
Formerly in the collection of a Hertfordshire Gentleman, a river find from the Cambridge/Suffolk fens in 1973.

CONDITION
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