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LOT 1681
Small Bronze Age Looped and Socketted Axehead
BRITAIN, 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 in. (86 grams, 77 mm).
Narrow blade with slightly flared edge, square-section socket with thick collar to the mouth and loop to one side of the collar; raised casting seams. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found East Anglia, UK.
From the private collection of Dr Hugh Alderson Fawcett.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.30.22; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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