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The Bronze Age period is a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking consisted of techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and then alloying those metals in order to cast bronze. In Europe, the bronze age follows the Neolithic period, but in most parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Neolithic is directly followed by the 'iron age'. Please choose from the Links below to review our selection of Bronze Age Antiquities. We are regularly adding to our collection of Bronze Age Antiquities and other Artifacts. Please re-visit soon to see what new items we have in stock.

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Examples of a few Bronze Age antiquities for sale~

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Bronze Age 009547~

VERY LARGE English Bronze Age 'Looped & Socketed' Axe. Copper alloy, 375 grams, 106.48 mm. Circa 2100 - 700 B.C. A chunky looped and socketed type axe head with raised five line decoration on each of the faces. A rare and intriguing single find. Good Fine condition. Found Pewsey, Wiltshire.

VERY LARGE English Bronze Age 'Looped & Socketed' Axe
Copper alloy, 375 grams, 106.48 mm. Circa 2100 - 700 B.C. A chunky looped and socketed type axe head with raised five line decoration on each of the faces. A rare and intriguing single find. Good Fine condition. Found Pewsey, Wiltshire.

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Urn 003467~

Bronze Age 'Cremation' Urn. 2.52 Kg, 9 x 10.5 inches. Circa 2000 B.C. A large cremation urn, spherical in shape with a flat bottom and a short out turned rim. With two incised line decoration around the rim. Around the body of the pot is a ornamental rope design. Extremely Fine condition. From an old Suffolk collection.

British Bronze Age 'Cremation' Urn
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2.52 Kg, 9 x 10.5 inches. Circa 2000 B.C. A large cremation urn, spherical in shape with a flat bottom and a short out turned rim. With two incised line decoration around the rim. Around the body of the pot is a ornamental rope design. Extremely Fine condition. From an old Suffolk collection.

This urn would have been deposited during the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. It was probably excavated from a circular burial mound which would have been erected in a prominent location, and was used to intern important members of the community.

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Palstave 009545~

Palstave Axe

European Bronze Age 'Unlooped Palstave' Axe
Copper alloy, 435 grams; 165.24 mm. Circa 2000 B.C. It has a crescentic cutting blade with wide shoulders that taper to the flanged, square butt. Above the flange on either side is some decoration in the form of a rounded trident. Ref: Similar to examples 11.6 - 11.10 in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green. Good Very Fine condition. Found Southern France.

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Anatolian 006479~

Anatolian Arrowhead

RARE Ancient Anatolian 'Barbed and Socketed' Arrowhead. Copper alloy, 5.05 grams, 43.88 mm. Circa 1st Millennium B.C. A bi convex arrowhead with well pronounced barbs to prevent withdrawal, below is a tapering tang, which would have kept it attached to the wooden shaft. No socketed examples in A Fine Collection of Ancient and Medieval Arrowhead and Crossbow Bolts by Alan Cherry. Ref: Similar to B18 in A Fine Collection of Ancient and Medieval Arrowhead and Crossbow Bolts by Alan Cherry. Extremely Fine condition.

One of the great crossroads of ancient civilizations is Anatolia. In about 2000 B.C. Asia Minor was in the hands of the Hittites, who migrated from the area east of the Black Sea. Their civilization rivaled that of the Egyptians and Babylonians. In the 12th century B.C. their empire fell to the Assyrians. Small seaboard states grew up, only to fall to the Greeks, who colonized the entire coast in about the 8th century B.C. According to legend, they first laid siege to the city-state of Troy during the Trojan War. In 560 B.C. Croesus mounted the throne of Lydia in Asia Minor and soon brought all the Greek colonies under his rule. Croesus was overthrown by Cyrus the Great of Persia. Two hundred years later Alexander the Great again spread Greek rule over the peninsula.

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How old is the Bronze Age?

The earliest known cast bronze age antiquities are from what is now Iran and Iraq and date to the late 4th millennium B.C., but there are claims of an earlier appearance of Bronze antiquities made in Thailand in the 5th millennium B.C. Arsenical bronzes were made in Anatolia and on both sides of the Caucasus by the early 3rd millennium B.C. Some scholars date some arsenical bronze artefacts of the Maykop culture in the North Caucasus as far back as the mid 4th millennium B.C., which would make them the oldest known bronzes, but others date the same Maykop artefacts to the mid 3rd millennium B.C.

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