INDO-GANGETIC MASSIVE CHISEL Copper Hoard Culture, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, mid-2nd millennium BC A substantial round-section copper bar developing to a rectangular-section finial, curved and rounded blade. 2.4 kg, 46.5cm (18 1/4"). Condition Fine condition. Extremely rare. Provenance Property of a West London gentleman; previously in an important weapons collection formed in the 1980s and early 1990s. Literature See Yule, P. The Bronze Age Metalwork of India, Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, München, 1985 for discussion. Footnotes Some Copper Hoard items have been assigned a ritual rather than practical function (Yule: 1985).
INDO-GANGETIC MASSIVE CHISEL Copper Hoard Culture, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, mid-2nd millennium BC A substantial round-section copper bar developing to a rectangular-section finial, curved and rounded blade. 2.4 kg, 46.5cm (18 1/4"). Condition Fine condition. Extremely rare. Provenance Property of a West London gentleman; previously in an important weapons collection formed in the 1980s and early 1990s. Literature See Yule, P. The Bronze Age Metalwork of India, Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, München, 1985 for discussion. Footnotes Some Copper Hoard items have been assigned a ritual rather than practical function (Yule: 1985).
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