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LOT 1640
Bronze Age Looped and Socketted Axehead
EASTERN EUROPE, 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 3/4 in. (139 grams, 95 mm).
With round-section barrel and two parallel ribs, flared cutting edge, small loop below; edge chipped. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex British private collection, Buckinghamshire, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.BA25; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. 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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