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LOT 0361
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
LATE 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
6 1/2 in. (130 grams, 16.5 cm).
With flared socket developing to a midrib in a leaf-shaped blade; opposed lateral holes to accept attachment pegs. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.C2; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, item 37, for type.
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