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LOT 1536
Iron Age Celtic Socketted Iron Spearhead
2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
11 in. (120 grams, 28 cm).
With a slender heart-shaped blade, thick midrib, flared closed socket.
ProvenanceFrom a 1980s collection.
Ex North West London gallery.
with TimeLine Auctions, 22-27 May 2018, no.1480.
Private collection, Suffolk.
Cf. Stead, I. & Rigby, V., The Morel Collection. Iron Age Antiquities from Champagne in the British Museum, London, 1999, item Q15(4).
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