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LOT 1553
British Stone Age Knapped Axehead
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.C.
3 1/4 in. (49.1 grams, 84 mm).
Double-edged with a narrow point in creamy-brown patinated flint. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound near Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK, 1960s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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French Stone Age Large Framed Board of 'Gravettian' Tools
Upper Palaeolithic Period, circa 35,000-25,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Framed display board with mounted types of tools referenced including 'Pointe de la Font Robert' and 'Pointe de la Gravette' and other types. 2.6 kg total, 57 x 47.5 cm including frame
Found La Gravitate, France. Ex collection of MG Georgeon. Ex collection of Madame C. From an old Paris collection. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Chalcolithic Stone Eye Idol
3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Triangular in form and plano-convex in section with scooped upper edge and two drilled eye-holes. 2.27 kg, 25 cm
Acquired in the 1994. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Angular and Other Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface flint and chert arrowheads, some triangular in section, slender and scaphoid in plan; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 148 grams total, 29-70 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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.
