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Elegant Stone Age 'Salisbury' Slender Grey Knapped Flint Adze
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 3/4 in. (147 grams, 14.4 cm).
Biconvex in section, long and slender with narrow butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound whilst fieldwalking in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Ex English private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.1, for type.
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LOT 0315
Elegant Stone Age 'Salisbury' Slender Grey Knapped Flint Adze
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
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Exceptionally Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 7th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Square in section with broad rounded butt and only slightly narrower tip, polished, some cortex remaining. 2.05 kg, 33 cm
From the property of Mr O.S., a late Suffolk, UK, gentleman, who acquired at auction from the 1960s. -
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Stone Age Tenerian Culture Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 7500-5300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
A large pecked and ground axehead with a curved cutting edge and a narrow rounded butt. 390 grams, 11.2 cm
From a private French collection formed in the 1960s–1970s. -
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Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Narrow body with broad butt; old collector's label to one side 'Hache Taillée / en silex patine blanche / L.13cm - Neolithique / Somme. 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo-sapiens-sapiens'. 147 grams, 12.7 cm
Found in the Somme Region, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
