CELTIC SOCKETED AXE

Ancient Bronze Age Celtic Socketed and Looped Axe Date: Circa 200 BC – 100 AD Material: Bronze Provenance: Obtained from an old British collection, purchased from a gentleman in Birmingham Size: 105

Northern Europe, Late Bronze Age (Celtic), ca. 800 to 500 BCE. An excellently-preserved example of a cast bronze axe head. The head is socketed, with a rectangular opening for a handle. The blade has

Date: 9th C BC - 1st C AD Material: iron Provenance: Purchased from an old British Collection; acquired from L.C.F. (London) Dimensions: 178mm; 229grams Celtic Iron Age iron socketed axe. Superb artif

**Originally Listed At $500** Northern Europe, Celtic culture, Late Bronze Age, ca. 800 to 500 BCE. An excellently-preserved example of a cast bronze axe head. The head is socketed, with an ovoid open

Central Europe, Proto-Celtic Urnfield Culture, ca. 1000 BCE. An elegant socketed bronze axe head with a short, curved blade and slight decorative flare to the shape of the socket. Central Europeans at

Western Asiatic, Ca. 1200-700 BC. An attractive ceremonial axe head with flared blade and wide, cylindrical shaft tube. On the back, a solid bronze animal climbs the poll of the axe. The diligently wo

Ancient Greece, Classical Period, ca. 5th century CE. A gorgeous cast-bronze axe head with a crested back ridge, a circular socketing hole with a small protrusion on the ends of the upper and lower sp

Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A lovely cast copper-bronze axe head with two distinct faces. A large socketing shaft is adorned with a ringed base and a molded ri

**Originally Listed At $300** Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Viking or Norse culture, ca. 8th to 10th century CE. A forged-iron axe head of a sizable form with a lengthy neck, a vertical blade with fla

Central Asia, Eastern Iran / Afghanistan, Bactria, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A striking trio of copper axe heads, each displaying a characteristic curved shape and a narrow, ovoid socket drilled

**First Time At Auction** Eastern Europe / Central Asia, Hungary, Bronze Age, ca. 7th to 5th century BCE. A hefty cast bronze axe head with a slightly-flared blade, sharply-angled sides, a thick neck,

Northern Europe, Viking / Norse culture, ca. 800 to 1100 CE. A hefty cast-iron axe head comprised of a rectangular socketing shaft with a thick butt, a sturdy neck, and a broad blade which droops down

Ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asiatic. A finely modelled Western-Asiatic cast bronze double axe head, composed of a long, tubular socket with four ribbed borders, a convex axe blade and an adze blad

Ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asiatic. Cast axe head comprising of a tubular socket with ribbed borders, a scroll to the upper edge and bulb below, a collar can be seen above the lower rim. The asym

Date: ca. 800 BC Materials: Bronze Dimensions: 104mm h x 46mm w x 39mm d - 273.4grams Provenance/Additional Information: From an old British collection, aquired from a private collector in London, for

Found in Kent England. Silvered bronze, Just over 1” height, with broadly rounded edge bit and broad hammer peen back Circular eye. Both sides with simple punched decoration. a simplified repres

Date: Circa 1st– 3rdc. AD Material: bronze Provenance: Obtained from an old British collection, acquired from the L.C.F. (London) Dimensions: 145mm; 85.5grams Ancient Bronze Age Celtic Socketed Spea

**Originally Listed At $250** Luristan, modern-day Iran, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A diminutive lost-wax cast bronze axe head with a simple blade curved on its lower edge and flat and unsharpened along the

Bronze Age Roman Socketed Axe

**First Time At Auction** Central Europe, ca. late 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE. A hefty and compact hammered copper axe head. It features a wide socketing end with a central ridge along the verso,

A bronze socketed axe head, Central Europe. 4" L Provenance: Ex collection New York, NY NOTE: This lot has a reserve. Reserve must be met to win the lot.

Ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asiatic. Cast axe head comprising of a tubular socket with ribbed borders, a scroll to the upper edge and bulb below, collar above the lower rim. A short blade with a w

ca. 800–600 BC. European. An hefty cast bronze axe head with flared blade, blunt sides, a thick neck, and a rounded collar with a hoop.The head is socketed, with a circular opening for a handle. Goo

ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asia. A bronze axe head with curved blade, triangular cheek, two parallel horizontal collars stretching from poll to cheek, and a heavy, circular socket; custom-made stand i