8th-6th century BC. A bronze looped and socketted axehead with convex edge and lateral spurs, bulbous collar to mouth, raised D-shaped wing to each broad face. Cf. Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B. The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab. IX, vol. 7, Munich, 1981, item 1287. 261 grams, 11.5cm (4 1/2"). From the property of a London gentleman; formerly in a UK collection, acquired in the 1990s.