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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.
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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