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LOT 1580
British Stone Age Fully Polished Axehead from Keith Hall
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
4 7/8 in. (5 7/8 in.) (376 grams, 12.4 cm (436 grams total, 15 cm including stand)).
Tongue-shaped in profile and plano-convex in section with pointed butt; old collector's label 'Keith Hall 1898' with 'Keith in a second, later hand above.
ProvenanceFound at Keith Hall, Farnham, in 1898.
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.
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LOT 1580
British Stone Age Fully Polished Axehead from Keith Hall
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
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Stone Age Knapped Tanged Point Collection
Aterian Period, circa 80,000-40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Spade-shaped, triangular and other types, each with a tang. 51 grams total, 37-53 mm
Found Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco, North Africa. Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Danish Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, 7th-5th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Trapezoidal in plan and rectangular in section with square butt and broad cutting edge. 986 grams, 10.9 cm
Found Denmark. Formerly acquired in the late 1950s. From the family collection of a South East London gentleman. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Large Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th 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. 414 grams total, 36-61 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.
