Stone Age French Bifacially Knapped Chert Lanceolate Axe

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.

6 7/8 in. (438 grams, 17.5 cm).

With convex cutting edge tapering to a rounded butt; with inked 'neolithique / bretteville le rabat / hache biface / dec 1981' in four lines.

Provenance

Bretteville le Rabet 1991.
From an old French collection.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.

Literature

Cf. Evans, Sir J., The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, London, 2nd edition, 1897, figure 23, for a similar British example.

CONDITION

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