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LOT 0336
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
11TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
6 3/4 in. (109 grams, 16 cm).
With flared socket developing to a midrib with scooped lateral ribbing in a leaf-shaped blade; opposed lateral holes to accept attachment pegs.
ProvenanceAcquired in Germany in 2000.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Cf. Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, item 37, for type.
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LOT 0336
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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Bronze Age Spectacle Pendant
16th-10th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Formed as two coils of round-section rod with a loop between. 30.7 grams, 79 mm
Formerly in a Munich, Germany collection, formed in the 1970s. From a private UK collection. From the Horton collection, UK. -
Bronze Age Bell Pendant Set
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Comprising three conical-shaped pendants with ribbed loops. 24.3 grams total, 36-38 mm
Ex Surrey, UK, collection, 1980s. -
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Bronze Age Ritual Limestone Slab with 'Astrological?' Drillings
Circa 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Rectangular worked stone block with one irregular edge; the thicker, dressed edge with a group of five drilled holes, possibly cup-marks, in a V-shaped formation. 65.7 kg, 65.5 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cup-marks, with or without surrounding rings, are among the most enigmatic signs which can be found widely across ancient European landscapes, most often in association with running water. Circular arrangements are one notable and recurrent feature, while straight lines and parallel rows are less frequently represented. The present stone most closely resembles the kind of feature found at e.g. Østergård, Risehøj, Østermarie on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea (Milstreu & Dodd, 2018, fig.15).
