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LOT 0339
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 3/4 in. (112 grams, 14.5 cm).
With flared socket developing to a midrib with lateral step, leaf-shaped blade with stepped profile; opposed lateral holes to accept attachment pegs.
Provenance
Ex Surrey, UK, collection, 1980s.
Literature
Cf. Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, item 37, for type.
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