Large Danish Stone Age Neolithic Thin Butted Axe

DOLMAN PERIOD, 3700-3300 B.C.

8 in. (758 grams, 20.5 cm).

A very finely polished axe with square edges and convex cutting edge, in yellow-brown flint with evidence of use as a 'strike-a-light' to the butt; with old collector label '179' to face.

Provenance

Acquired 1990s.
French private collection before 2020.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.

Literature

Cf. Glob, P. V., Danske Oldsager II, Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, no.228, for type.

CONDITION

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