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LOT 1546
Stone Age Aterian Tanged Tool Group
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 145,000-30,000 YEARS B.P.
1 1/2 - 1 3/4 in. (22.3 grams total, 39-44 mm).
Each roughly rectangular in plan with slender handle; marked in ink 'NWA'. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Morocco / Algerian border.
Ex UK collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
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Stone Age Aterian Tanged Tool Group
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 145,000-30,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Each roughly rectangular in plan with slender handle; marked in ink 'NWA'. 22.3 grams total, 39-44 mm
From the Morocco / Algerian border. Ex UK collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. -
Large Stone Age Polished Grey Stone Pierced Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
With hammer-face to the butt, thick edge, scooped rims to the socket. 1.16 kg, 15.2 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. -
Stone Age Long Flint Knife
Neolithic Period, circa 6000-4500 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Knapped from high quality flint; with old inked collector's label 'Thetford / Women / Sep.1864'. 21 grams, 99 mm
Found Thetford, Norfolk, England, in 1864. From the collection of G.Asquith, a local Norfolk amateur archaeologist. Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Remarkably, the blade is still very sharp and appears to have been made to be hafted and used as a knife.
