Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
17-20 November 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/630
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bo|- 591 592 594 SF RIES TS Treem une Sees mx Greg POA aap aes | 5 pee Sdsied BRONZE AGE. FOUND IN IRELAND. A fine flat A in copper, with semi-circular edge, 6% in. long, Sound at ully ackey ; and two others, smaller, with localities 3 ¥, Another of copper, of heavy fabric, 4$%n. long, found near Omagh, | ee f fine; atid three others, smaller, with localities —t J Another ah Gopper, with unusual incurved sides, and straight- Ne cutting edge, 64 in., Ballymena; and two others, smaller, both’ Xt ier Soe good 3 ¢ hree flat Axes of primitive type, 44 in., 44 in. and 4 tn. long ; ~ from Toome, Dunboy and Loughguile PRS, “77 flat bronze Axe, with incurved sides, 44 in., Clough ; another, | % 5 in., Ballyconolly ; and another, 53 in., Ballymena 3 ~ A large flat Axe, expanding towards the edge, the surface showing » » traces of herring-bone decoration, wt in. long ; Ballymena, fine a a 4 and vare g 1 Maas a 4 Py & , Another, similar, with | ‘decoration of short indented lines out- sr’ .) RR PS found near Gar agh, n yor egard Bay, fine and rare (PI. Wt} 1 LA flat Axe, with narrow att 44 in. long, and at Craig-billy (ll. Ulster Journal of % rcheology, vol. IX, p. 179, fig. 3); another, 44 in. ; - smaller ‘example; and a tiny copper Blade, found at Kells, Co Antrim 4 A flat bronze Axe, witb curved cutting edge, the surface decorated with lines of indented dots and chevrons, 52 in.; found at Glensherry, fine and rare [PI. Ht] 1 Another, with herring-bone decoration on surface, 74 in.; found near the previous specimen, also fine 1 A flat bronze Axe, with traces of herring-hone decoration, 42 in., found at Moorfields, Co. Antrim, jine; another, with slight ridge in centre of blade, 54 in., Ballymena ; and a small chisel-
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