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LOT 1556

Scandinavian Stone Age Polished Stone Thick-Butted Axehead

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4000-2300 B.P.

8 1/2 in. (510 grams, 21.7 cm).

Highly polished with slightly concave sides, square butt, inked collector's note to one side. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Scandinavia 25 May 1943.
From the private collection of John Fox, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, antiquarian and archaeologist; his collection assembled in the 1950s-1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Glob, P.V., Danske Oldsager: Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, items 232, 234.

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LOT 1556

Scandinavian Stone Age Polished Stone Thick-Butted Axehead

Sold for (Inc. bp): £572

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