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LOT 0260
Large and Impressive Nordic Stone Age Flaked Flint Preform for a Handaxe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5000-3500 B.P.
7 1/2 in. (790 grams, 19 cm).
Large ovate handaxe 'blank' with initial knapping work already undertaken, preparatory to finishing and dressing. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Swedish Industrialist Nils Thorwaldsen (1918-2019).
Ex private collection; acquired during the 1970s-1980s.
These flint axe 'blanks' were widely traded during Neolithic times.
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LOT 0260
Large and Impressive Nordic Stone Age Flaked Flint Preform for a Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
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French Stone Age Knapped Flint Bifacial Adze
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Cordiform in plan and lentoid in section with acute point; inked legend 'Caply' to one face. 190 grams, 93 mm
From Caply, Northern France. From the UK art market. -
Large Stone Age Drilled and Polished Macehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Ground and polished with central drilled socket. 1.13 kg, 14.1 cm
Found Horsham, West Sussex, UK. From the private collection of a Sussex, UK, gentleman. -
Stone Age Lozenge-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-6th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising mostly bifacial and unifacial lozenge-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 95 grams total, 19-46 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.
