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LATE BRONZE AGE SOCKETTED SPEARHEAD
CIRCA 9TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
6 7/8 in. (118 grams, 17.5 cm).
CIRCA 9TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
6 7/8 in. (118 grams, 17.5 cm).
Leaf-shaped blade with a ribbed raised central ridge.
PROVENANCE:
From the collection of Dr Günter Wiedner, Bavaria, Germany, 1980s-2015.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, private collector.
LITERATURE:
Cf. MacGregor, A., Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the collection of the Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Ashmolean Museum, 1987, no.11.45; pl.10, p.18.
FOOTNOTES:
These kind of spearheads are similar to the spearheads found in Irish Late Bronze Age hoards of the Dowris period, although there are no channelled blades.
