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British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead
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LOT 1549

British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4000-2300 B.P.

3 3/4 in. (172 grams, 97 mm).

A complete ground or polished stone axehead sub-ovate in plan, narrower at the butt end with a steep curve to the cutting edge, facetted ovate section with squared off sides. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Tottle Brook, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK.
From the private collection of John Fox, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, antiquarian and archaeologist; his collection assembled in the 1950s-1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 5.24, for type.

CONDITION
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LOT 1549

British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead

Sold for (Inc. bp): £182

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