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LOT 1470
Stone Age Axe-Shaped Mortar
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 50,000-12,000 B.P.
5 1/4 in. (757 grams, 13.5 cm wide).
Sandstone boat-shaped mortar with upwardly curved peak, central socket; mounted on a custom-made stand with ol collector's label 'NorthWestern Sahara / Upper Palaeolithic'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the North West Sahara.
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.
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Stone Age Flint Scraper and Other Implement Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising nineteen knapped tools and one polished implement. 405 grams total, 3.2-13.4 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
In the Neolithic the continuing predominance of flint artefacts did not stop the evolution of the society. The neolithic people were different in radical way from their predecessors. Farming rather than hunting was now the basis of the human existence, creating slowly but inesorably a more sedentary way of life in villages of timber-houses. Consequently the artefacts created by the men of Neolithic were tool instruments, like axes used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for construction. -
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Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Narrow body with broad butt; old collector's label to one side 'Hache Taillée / en silex patine blanche / L.13cm - Neolithique / Somme. 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo-sapiens-sapiens'. 147 grams, 12.7 cm
Found in the Somme Region, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Polished Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Group of four trapezoidal axeheads, each with a gently curved cutting edge. 224 grams total, 39-70 mm
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.
