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LOT 1630
British Stone Age Flint Axehead Group
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 12TH-8TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
3 - 4 7/8 in. (269 grams total, 7.6-12.4 cm).
Each lentoid in section with lateral cutting edges, the larger with a broad square butt. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Derbyshire auction house, UK.
From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector.
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Stone Age Tenerian Axe Head
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Lentoid in section and linguiform in plan with squared cutting edge and broad, rounded butt. 291 grams, 14.6 cm
Found Sahara, North Africa. Acquired from a US-based collector. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. -
British Stone Age Triangular Flint Arrowhead from Farnham
Mesolithic Period, circa 12,000-8,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Trapezoidal in plan with finely knapped chamfered edges. 0.74 grams, 23 mm
Found Farnham, Surrey, UK, in 1901. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent.
After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction to a gentleman in Kent. The collection was then sold again in the 2020’s via a UK auction house. -
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Large Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface triangular barded and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 43 grams total, 29-49 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
