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LOT 1242
Stone Age Implement Group
NEOLITHIC, CIRCA 4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/8 - 3 1/8 in. (542 grams total, 36-80 mm).
Composed of scrapers, blades and other implements. [14, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
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Stone Age Pierced Battle Axe-Hammer
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
With rounded butt and convex sides, pierced for attachment to the handle. 921 grams, 18 cm
Found near Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, by the vendor's father. Property of a Suffolk lady.
Axe-hammers like this one were used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for building. The great number of stone axes and axe-hammers from Nordic European areas are a measure of how densely populated some parts of the Europe had become by five thousand years ago. -
Stone Age Tenerian Culture Flint Tool Group
Neolithic Period, 7500-5300 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising twenty tools, including knives, scrapers and cores. 300 grams total, 46-83 mm
From the Tenera Region, of South Central Sahara. From a private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s. -
Stone Age Flint Implement Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £85
Mixed group including: small blade core, small scrapers (3) and two small implements; with two replica bifacially knapped lance points of American origin. 254 grams total, 2.6-12 mm
London, UK, collection, 1990s. Property of a North London gentleman.
