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LOT 0351
Bronze Age Ceremonial Cup Stone Slab
CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
22 3/4 in. (50.6 kg, 57.5 cm).
Irregular slab fragment with weathered upper face, cluster of seven cup-marks without surrounding rings. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
See Glob, P. V., Helleristninger i Danmark Vol. VII, Jysk Arkæologisk Selskabs Skrifter, Odense, 1969; Milstreu, G.& Dodd, J., The cup-mark: the smallest, most frequent, cosmopolitan and most complicated symbol in Adoranten, 2018.
FootnotesThe fragment plausibly represents one corner of an arrangement such as that at Tanum, Denmark (Milstreu & Dodd, 2018, fig.8) in which a cluster of shallow depressions forms a larger pattern. The depressions may have been used to collect dew or rainwater, visualised as a gift from the gods provided without human intervention, as well as for ceremonial uses.
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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. -
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Bronze Age Ceremonial Cup Stone Slab
Circa 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Irregular slab fragment with weathered upper face, cluster of seven cup-marks without surrounding rings. 50.6 kg, 57.5 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.
The fragment plausibly represents one corner of an arrangement such as that at Tanum, Denmark (Milstreu & Dodd, 2018, fig.8) in which a cluster of shallow depressions forms a larger pattern. The depressions may have been used to collect dew or rainwater, visualised as a gift from the gods provided without human intervention, as well as for ceremonial uses. -
Bronze Age British Palstave Axehead
Circa 1500-1100 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Of Stop-Ridge type with slander shaft and deep step to each face, stop-ridge and depression below, shallow crescent blade. 416 grams, 15.2 cm
Found Norfolk, UK. Ex Ely Auctions, Cambridgeshire, UK.
