© British Museum
Two Hungarian shaft-hole axes
Artist: Bronze Age
Location: British Museum
Materials: bronze
Dimensions: 22cm & 20.4cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,000 (Total: £15,000)
Vendor: Artemis Group (Fine Art), through Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch Ltd
Review number: 4927 (2001)
Provenance:
Found in Hungary, 19th century AD; Talbot Ready; General Pitt Rivers; possibly sold by Mrs Stella Pitt Rivers after WWII; passed through the collection of Lord McAlpine during 1980s.
Description:
Axeheads are decorated with designs made up of a complex array of geometric and curvilinear motifs.
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