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LOT 1253
Bronze Age Socketted Axehead Fragment
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 in. (93 grams, 53 mm).
Featuring a convex cutting edge and wedge-shaped cheeks with crescentic blade. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEssex gallery, early 2000s.
LiteratureSee MacGregor, Arthur ed., Antiquities From Europe and the Near East in the Collection of The Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, no.11.11, for similar form.
FootnotesThe fragment belongs to a typical example of developed flat axe with expanded curved cutting edges and sides raised into slight flanges. Some specimens like this are representative of the early bronze age in Britain and Europe.
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