Bronze Age Flanged Axe

CENTRAL EUROPE, 2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

6 1/4 in. (280 grams, 16 cm).

A substantial wing-flanged bronze axehead with narrow straight blade and convex cutting edge, lateral rhomboid in-turned flanges meeting at the centre of each side; square butt.

Provenance

Ex German collection, 1990s.

Literature

Cf. Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B., The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab. IX, vol. 7, Munich, 1981, p.100-4, for type.

CONDITION

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