Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
14th July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/160
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NEOLITHS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN FOUND IN BRITAIN. | 454 Five stone celts, all well-fashioned examples of Spanish origin; two spindle-whorls, in stone, probably of Swiss Lake-Dwelling origin; a hammer-stone ; and two excep- tionally fine ground celts, of French origin. All ten objects found in Britain 10 455 Four flint daggers of the Neolithic Age, probably of Danish origin; a perforated axe-hammer, also Danish; and a leaf-shaped flint dagger, of French type, but almost certainly a modern forgery. The rest quite genuine and found in Britain | 6 LAY BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGE. ‘ee [-j P. a ree /o GO) Five bronze mace-heads, with spiked processes, generally wo referred to the Bronze Age, but thought by some to be I fo J _ Medizval. All different 5 iS] y : Pa q Five others, of similar type, but with slight variations 5: 458 Two socketed spear-heads, in bronze, of the Early Iron Age, with rivet-holes for securing the heads to their shatts— 64 m. long 2. 459 An early form of the palstave celt or hatchet, of the Bronze Age—62 in. long; also a socketed bronze celt, of the Harly Iron Age, with loop for attachment by cord— 43 in. long 2. 460 A pear-shaped bronze bell or rattle, of the type found in Ireland ; a bronze mask-shaped ornament of a (?) bucket, in the form of a bearded human face, perhaps Etruscan ; « bronze lion’s claw; and a pair of double-looped key- like objects of uncertain use. Allof the Early Iron Age 5 461 A Bronze Hor, of the early Iron Age—4? im. wide by 43 in. long. Wine 1 462 A large bronze ring—6 %m. diam.—with hatched double ridges on the outer edge; possibly one of the ornaments or strengthening pieces of a chariot pole. Early Iron Age. Also six bronze rings, probably from horse trappings 7
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