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LOT 1540
Bronze Age Copper Flat Axe
CIRCA 2000-1500 B.C.
5 3/4 in. (452 grams, 14.5 cm).
With lentoid-section, narrow rounded butt and broad curved cutting edge. [No Reserve]
Provenance
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.
Literature
Cf. Evans, J., The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881, item 29; Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B., The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab. IX, vol. 7, Munich, 1981, p.60.
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