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LOT 1524
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
CIRCA 1000 B.C.
5 3/8 in. (149 grams, 13.6 cm).
With broad leaf-shaped blade and tapering socket extending to the midrib; socket pierced to accept attachment pegs; tip absent. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Dunmow, UK, collection; formed from 1970.
LiteratureCf. Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, item 37, for type.
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