A bronze sickle, formed as a curved casting with one flat face, the other face slightly ribbed. The edge to the inside, with two piercings for fixing at one end.
 
Late Bronze Age Europe: Circa 1200-500 BC.
 
Condition: Very Fine; good stable bronze with a pale green patina.
Length (measured along the outside edge) 17 cms (6.7 ins).
 
Provenance: Ex German collection, 1990s.
 
Reference: A MacGregor; Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, 1987, no. 16.3.