Bronze Age Copper Flat Axehead

BRITAIN, MID 3RD-MID 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

4 in. (125 grams, 98 mm).

Trapezoidal in plan with flared edge and square butt. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found East Anglia, UK.
Acquired in Oxon, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.BA19; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

Literature

See Savoury, H.N., Guide Catalogue of the Bronze Age Collections, National Museum of Wales, 1980, fig.17, for similar examples.

CONDITION

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