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LOT 1463
Iron Age Celtic La Tene Ritually Bent Sword
CIRCA 450 B.C.– 50 A.D.
15 3/4 in. (760 grams total, 40 cm).
An iron long sword of Stead's Type II with two-edged, parallel-sided flat-section blade, rounded shoulders, long lenticular-section tang with knop finial.
Provenance
Acquired on the German art market.
Private collection, Germany.
Kept in the UK from 2016.
Literature
See Stead, I.M., British Iron Age Swords and Scabbards, London, 2006, for discussion.
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