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LOT 1217
Massive Stone Age Knapped Stone Hand Axe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-100,000 B.P.
13 3/8 in. (1.69 kg total, 34 cm including stand).
Of triangular cross section tapering from a slender point to a convex butt; with custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceOld German collection, before 1920.
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Stone Age Flint Knife Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising thirty knives and some other implements. 195 grams total, 39-82 mm
From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. -
Stone Age Pierced Battle Axe-Hammer
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
With rounded butt and convex sides, pierced for attachment to the handle. 921 grams, 18 cm
Found near Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, by the vendor's father. Property of a Suffolk lady.
Axe-hammers like this one were used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for building. The great number of stone axes and axe-hammers from Nordic European areas are a measure of how densely populated some parts of the Europe had become by five thousand years ago. -
Stone Age Acheulian Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, before 200.000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Cleaver-shaped with rounded butt. 584 grams, 16.6 cm
Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria - Acheulian industry of the Sahara. From an old Hamburg, Germany collection.
