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LOT 1564
Large Stone Age Drilled and Polished Macehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
5 1/2 in. (1.13 kg, 14.1 cm).
Ground and polished with central drilled socket. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Horsham, West Sussex, UK.
From the private collection of a Sussex, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 1564
Large Stone Age Drilled and Polished Macehead
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Stone Age Thick-Butted Polished Axe Head
Neolithic Period, circa 5500-2200 B.P.Estimate: £300 - 400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £160
Worked on all sides to a slightly asymmetrical profile with rectangular cross-section; irregular butt and rounded cutting edge, sides knapped but not polished; butt roughly retouched on surface and edges for attachment of the haft; edge chipped; light grey flint with darker and lighter hues and white spots and patches. 411 grams, 15.2 cm
Hervé Bouraly, Paris, between 1965-1974. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00134589. -
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-6th millennium B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 90 grams total, 23-38 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. -
Stone Age Clactonian Flint Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 700,000-300,000 B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Slender body with a rounded blade, inked collection number '4163/1/28'. 179 grams, 11.3 cm
Previously in an old Stone Age tool collection, having been annotated with an accession number. Acquired from an Oxfordshire, UK, auction house. From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector.
