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LOT 1106
Stone Age Boat-Shaped Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/2 in. (334 grams, 11.4 cm).
A stone axehead with central cylindrical socket, oblong butt and tapering cheeks with vertical convex cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1971-1972.
From the collection of the vendor's father.
Property of a London, UK, collector.
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Stone Age Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
A diorite axe-hammer, with rounded butt chamfered at the edge and with convex sides, sub-rectangular in section, dark green fine-grained stone. 635 grams, 10 cm
Acquired 1971-1972. From the collection of the vendor's father. Property of a London, UK, collector.
During Neolithic period, while objects for everyday use, such as knife blades, arrows and lance tips were often only knapped - albeit with very fine retouching - and people soon learnt how to polish selected tools and equipment with sand for a smooth surface. Rotating tubular bone and sand made it possible to fit axes and hammers with a pierced 'eye' for the handle. This eye socket is the preliminary stage of the Bronze Age socket. -
Stone Age Neolithic Implement Collection
Circa 4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
A group comprising: the substantial tip of a finely knapped bifacial knife/dagger with old collector number '1966'; a small polished chisel with square sides and slightly convex cutting edge and a small axe with tapered sides and deeply convex cutting edge; the first two of Danish workmanship, the third possibly from further south. 130 grams total, 6.7-11.1 cm
Acquired 1990s. Private UK dealer. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Implement with Convex Retouching
Lower Paleolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
A Twydall flint implement with convex retouching; handwritten collector's inventory id. to the body 'A 2007 Twydall'. 66.6 grams, 67 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.
