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LOT 1222
Stone Age British Neolithic Polished Flint Axe
CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/8 in. (292 grams, 13 cm).
With slightly convex cutting edge tapering with squared sides to a near square butt which shows evidence of possible use as a strike-a-light. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound UK.
UK collection since the 1990s.
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Neolithic Period, 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Stone Age British Neolithic Polished Axe
6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
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Stone Age Upnor Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
An early form of hand axe formed from Clactonian flint; handwritten collector's identification label to one face, reading 'Upnor 35'. 275 grams, 10.7 cm
Found Upnor, 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.
