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LOT 1738
African Stone Age Homo Erectus Knapped Acheulean Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1,000,000-500,000 B.P.
4 7/8 in. (550 grams, 12.4 cm).
Formed in dark red quartzite with rounded butt and tapering lower end; tip absent. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Northern Sahara, North Africa.
From a collection formed during the 1970s and 1980s, having been acquired on the British art market; thence by descent to the current owner in 1998.
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LOT 1738
African Stone Age Homo Erectus Knapped Acheulean Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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British Stone Age Knapped Flint Sickle Knife
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Curved body with some serrations on the upper edge, inked collector's note 'Nr Thetford' on one side. 71 grams, 13.9 cm
Found near Thetford, UK. From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s. -
Stone Age Mixed Type Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-6th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 248 grams total, 28-43 mm
Ex UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Danish 'Type-1B' Knapped Flint Dagger
Neolithic Early Dagger Period, circa 4400-3800 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
A finely made and complete early fine Senonian or Danian flint dagger belonging to the Danish Single Grave Culture (Dolktid), a slender lanceolate outline with near-parallel sides, a discreetly indicated hafting zone, and the maximum width placed at or just ahead of the midsection. 66 grams, 18.3 cm
Found Ordrup, Sjaelland Island, Denmark, 1970. From the private collection of amateur archaeologist Jorgen Faxholm, UK. Accompanied by a copy of a previous catalogue sheet with reference.
This dagger shows the characteristic manufacturing traits of the earliest dagger horizon. There is no polishing or parallel-struck flaking of the later, more elaborate types. The maker relied on careful, even marginal retouch to create a sharp and functional cutting edge. The dagger appears to retain its original proportions with no evidence of later reworking or reduction. By the time Lomborg formalised the typology, approximately 540 examples of Type 1B were recorded from graves or intentional depositions, with a further circa 150 from unprovenanced contexts. This example sits squarely within that early corpus and represents the form at its best.
