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LOT 0304
Stone Age Danish Thin-Butted Polished Flint Axe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 in. (135 grams, 12.5 cm).
Finely polished with convex cutting edge tapering with narrow squared edges to thin rounded butt.
ProvenanceAcquired during the 1970s-1980s.
From the Nils Thorwaldson (1918-2019) private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
See Glob, P. V., Danske Oldsager II, Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, no.11, for a generally similar example.
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