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LOT 1504
Danish Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 7TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
4 1/4 in. (986 grams, 10.9 cm).
Trapezoidal in plan and rectangular in section with square butt and broad cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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.
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Ovate scraper with broad cutting edge (chipped); marked 'Che[.] Hill 50988 / 15-10-13'. 61 grams, 62 mm
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Double-edged with broad edge and square butt, in blue-grey patinated flint. 170 grams, 13.4 cm
Found Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK. -
Stone Age Lozenge-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 95 grams total, 21-42 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
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