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LOT 0244
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.
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s.
French private collection before 2020.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
Cf. Glob, P. V., Danske Oldsager II, Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, no.228, for type.
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Knife
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A Twydall flint knife bearing collector's handwritten inventory id. '1311 I. Twydall'. 66 grams, 60 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
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Stone Age Neolithic Polished Ceremonial Axe
Circa 10th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
A very finely polished axe with rounded sides tapering to a pointed butt with convex cutting edge in a mottled grey-green stone with white inclusions; with a custom-made wood stand bearing a label reading 'Neolithic Polished axehead 10,000-3,500 BC. / Originally from Musee Servaire. / Condat, France. Found in Brittany, Ploemel 1970s.' in three lines. 560 grams total, 20.3 cm high including stand
Pristine condition. Rare.
Found Brittany, 1970s. Acquired 2019 from Musee Servaire (Museum), Condat, France. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
The workmanship and quality in the polishing on this axe is beautifully achieved; such axes, especially when in exotic materials such as seen here, were most probably intended for presentation or ceremonial use and were widely traded.
