Late Bronze Age South East Variant Looped and Socketted Axehead

SOUTHERN ENGLAND, 1000-800 B.C.

2 3/4 in. (155 grams, 71 mm).

Hollow-formed and rectangular in section with rounded rim to the mouth, tapering lateral faces each with three raised ribs, flared blade with lateral spurs, narrow integral loop. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found UK.
From the collection of a late West London, UK, gentleman.

Literature

Cf. Pendleton, C.F., Bronze Age Metalwork in East Anglia, BAR British Series 279, Oxford, 1999, item 128, for type.

CONDITION

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LOT 2013