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LOT 1455
Iron Age Celtic La Tene Ritually Bent Sword
CIRCA 450 B.C.-50 A.D.
16 in. (620 grams total, 40.6 cm).
An iron long sword of Stead's Type III with two-edged, parallel-sided flat-section blade, rounded shoulders, long lenticular-section tang.
ProvenanceAcquired on the German art market.
Private collection, Germany.
Kept in the UK from 2016.
See Stead, I.M., British Iron Age Swords and Scabbards, London, 2006, for discussion.
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