Bronze Age Decorated Looped and Socketted Axehead

BRITAIN, 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

3 3/4 in. (295 grams, 97 mm).

Hollow-formed and rectangular in section with rim to the mouth, tapering faces with three raised ribs, flared blade and low integral loop. [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.BA17; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

Literature

Cf. Pendleton, C.F., Bronze Age Metalwork in East Anglia, BAR British Series 279, Oxford, 1999, item 128, for type.

CONDITION

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