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LOT 0366
Large Bronze Age Twin-Looped Palstave Axehead
BRITAIN, 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 5/8 in. (953 grams, 22 cm).
With gently curved cutting edge and rebates to receive the handle, integral longitudinal lines to each side, below the rebates; narrow attachment loop to each side. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found East Anglia, UK.
Acquired in Oxon, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.BA18; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B., The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab. IX, vol. 7, Munich, 1981, pl.67, no. 932.
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