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LOT 1525
Bronze Age Looped and Socketted Axehead Section
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 1/4 in. (111 grams, 59 mm).
Fragment of socket, blade and cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
LiteratureSee similar type in Smith, M.A. (ed), The Shoebury Hoard, Suffolk, Inventaria Archaeologica GB 38, London, British Museum, 1958, no.10.
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The lack of an integral tang is an early feature found on Class II rapiers.
