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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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Bronze Age Shield Boss
Early 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Domed in profile with applied hub and openwork pelta-shaped plaque. 68 grams, 12.2 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Bronze Age Coiled Gold Hair Ring
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Comprising a coiled flat-section body with tapering terminals. 1.01 grams, 11 mm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. -
Bronze Age to Post Medieval PAS Recorded Artefact Group
1st millennium B.C.-17th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Comprising: Edward I silver penny (Sf-35D7CA); cut-quarter hammered silver coin (SF-36EB61); bronze pinhead (SF-35BF4B); bronze terret (SF-378E89); Polden Hill-type bow brooch (SF-3655EB); Harlow-type bow brooch (SF-C5C6BC); Colchester-type bow brooch (SF-C69B01); harness pendants (SF-3738FB, SF-C5F10D); disc brooch (SF-63B4EB); lead spindle whorls (SF-353DA0, SF-3501D6, SF-351B10); belt mounts (SF-35816E, SF-1989D4); bronze bracelet (SF-382C8A); bronze buckles (SF-34D969, SF-34B882); bronze spearhead (SF-C6436A). 303 grams total including documents
Found Suffolk, UK. Accompanied by copies of many of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) reports, nos. as listed.
