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LOT 1522
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
1100-750 B.C.
2 in. (19.6 grams, 52 mm).
Leaf-shaped with prominent lozengiform midrib. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound whilst searching with a metal detector in North Yorkshire, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) drawings and report slip no.YORYM-E01827.
Cf. Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, fig.20, for type.
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