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LOT 1267
Large Bronze Age Freeform 'Pancake' Founder's Ingot
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
13 5/8 in. (2 kg total, 34.5 cm high including stand).
Of amorphous form with inclusions to both surfaces; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Cotham, Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Footnotes
These ingots were cast in shallow scoops carved into boulders or stones at places where the ore was mined and smelted; they were then traded across the Bronze Age world as raw material.
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