Summary

This Bronze-age spearhead entered the ethnological collection (then managed by the National Gallery of Victoria) in 1892. It was procured for the collection by Augustus Wollaston Franks, Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum, as part of an exchange initiated by the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria. The label on this object identifies its date of collection as 1860 and the source as 'Braxton Coll'. This mysterious figure is likely to be the 'RH Brackstone' noted as the source of collection objects in the British Museum and National Museum of Ireland, with a monogram of 'RHB' also appearing on other Irish objects in the Museums Victoria collection.

Bibliography
Charles Mount, 'The Collection of Early and Middle Bronze Age Material Culture in South-East Ireland', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Vol. 101C, No. 1 (2001), pp. 1-35.

Physical Description

A spearhead made of bronze, socketed with two loops. A label on the object identifies its origin as 'Near Rosecrea, Co. Tipperary, 1850. Braxon Coll. 196. 154 [or 9]'.

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