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LOT 1545
Bronze Age Sickle Blade
CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
6 5/8 in. (150 grams, 17 cm).
A lanceolate blade with ribbed detail on upper surface, plain reverse; a fixing peg formed from the casting sprue at the broad end. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Cummings collection, UK, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. The British Museum, museum number WG.283, for similar.
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Bronze Age Sickle Blade
Circa 800 B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
With a sharply curving single-edged blade, grooved stem with a rectangular projection above for attachment to a wooden handle. 77 grams, 17 cm
Ex private collection, Walton on Thames, UK, 1970s. From the private collection of John Lawton, Surrey, UK. Accompanied by a copy of a previous catalogue information page. -
Bronze Age Socketted Gouge
Early 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Of cylindrical form with tubular socket, with U-section balde to one face. 56 grams, 79 mm
Found Hertfordshire, UK. -
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Bronze Age Ceremonial Cup Stone Slab
Circa 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Irregular slab fragment with weathered upper face, cluster of seven cup-marks without surrounding rings. 50.6 kg, 57.5 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
The fragment plausibly represents one corner of an arrangement such as that at Tanum, Denmark (Milstreu & Dodd, 2018, fig.8) in which a cluster of shallow depressions forms a larger pattern. The depressions may have been used to collect dew or rainwater, visualised as a gift from the gods provided without human intervention, as well as for ceremonial uses.
