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LOT 1603
Bronze Age Looped and Socketted Axehead
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 5/8 in. (66 grams, 67 mm).
With broad tapering body and flared blade; part of socket absent. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
LiteratureCf. MacGregor, A., Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the collection of the Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Ashmolean Museum, 1987, no.11.19.
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