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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]
Provenance
Essex gallery, early 2000s.
Literature
See 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.
Footnotes
The 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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