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LOT 0308
Massive Stone Age Danish Polished Flint Axe
DOLMAN PERIOD, 3700-3300 B.C.
11 7/8 in. (1.29 kg, 30 cm).
Finely polished massive axe with convex cutting edge showing evidence of re-sharpening, tapering with squared knapped sides to a broad rounded butt.
Provenance
From a Danish collection, circa 2000.
Ex UK collection.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
Literature
See Glob, P. V., Danske Oldsager II, Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, no.111, for a generally similar example; see Petersen, Peter Vang, Flint fra Danmarks Oldtid, 2008, no.157.
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