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LOT 1468
Stone Age Arrowhead and Tool Collection
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000-200,000 B.P.
2 3/8 - 3 3/8 in. (292 grams total, 62-85 mm).
Group of three worked flints comprising a triangular arrowhead, a biconvex blade and a scraper with some cortex remaining. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Stone Age Tenerian Culture Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 7500-5300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
A large pecked and ground axehead with a curved cutting edge and a narrow rounded butt. 390 grams, 11.2 cm
From a private French collection formed in the 1960s–1970s. -
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Stone Age French Grey Knapped Flint Axe
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Biconvex in section with broad cutting edge, tip of butt absent. 467 grams, 15.3 cm
Found France. Acquired from older collections, 1940s-1960s; and thence by family descent. From the collection of Guy Dubois, Rouen, France. Ex Helios Gallery, Wiltshire, UK. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
With rounded butt and convex convergent sides, straight vertical cutting edge and central mounting socket. 775 grams, 12.8 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
