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A bronze sword and two plug bayonets

Various, 500–250 BC–c. 1750

A late Bronze Age sword from Western Europe, dating from the second quarter of the 1st millennium BC, together with a Spanish plug bayonet, circa 1750 and a Dutch plug bayonet by Abraham Du Celtier, Amsterdam, circa 1700-1725.

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A bronze sword and two plug bayonets, 500–250 BC–c. 1750

Date supported

1956

Gifted by

A J Hugh Smith

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