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LOT 0352
Bronze Age Ceramic Vessel
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 1000-800 B.C.
8 in. (778 grams, 20.5 cm wide).
Squat jar with convex underside, caribated shoulder with incised ring, flared and everted rim, burnished surface. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound UK.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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Bronze Age Ritual Limestone Slab with Drillings
Circa 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Rectangular worked stone block with one irregular edge; the thicker, dressed edge with a group of five drilled holes, possibly cup-marks, in a V-shaped formation. 65.7 kg, 65.5 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cup-marks, with or without surrounding rings, are among the most enigmatic signs which can be found widely across ancient European landscapes, most often in association with running water. Circular arrangements are one notable and recurrent feature, while straight lines and parallel rows are less frequently represented. The present stone most closely resembles the kind of feature found at e.g. Østergård, Risehøj, Østermarie on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea (Milstreu & Dodd, 2018, fig.15). -
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Bronze Age Gold Hair Ring
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £702
A round-section rod coiled and partly flattened to form a hair ornament. 5.93 grams, 13 mm
By repute found Lincolnshire in the 1960s. From the collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green. From the private collection of John Lawton, Surrey, UK. Accompanied by a copy of a previous cataloguing information page. -
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Bronze Age Pair of Spiral Bracelets
Circa 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Each formed of flat-section rod with raised median rib decorated with diagonally hatched bands and tapering finials; one bracelet with incised hatched decoration to the finials, the other with panels of incised herringbone decoration interspersed with panels of hatching. 221 grams total, 75 mm each
Ex private collection, Walton on Thames, UK, 1970s. From the private collection of John Lawton, Surrey, UK.
