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Iron Age Celtic La Tene II Sword

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Circa 2nd century BC A hand-forged iron sword in its scabbard; the blade broad and parallel-sided with rounded point and central strengthening rib; the tang rectangular-section; the scabbard fragmentary, with scrolled upper edge, decorated with lightly incised design of circles with opposed birds above, roundels and geometric designs. Cf. the sword and scabbard from Bugthorpe, Yorkshire, England in Smith, R.A. British Museum Guide to Early Iron Age Antiquities, fig.124 Iron, 515 grams, 78 cm (30 1/2") From an important West Country collection.

Fine condition.

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