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LOT 1241
Stone Age Knapped and Pecked Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 - 7 in. (1.07 kg total, 5.2-18 cm).
Comprising of two slender knapped stone axes, with a large pecked type (spalled from cutting edge) and two ground pestle or similar implements. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Stone Age Acheulian Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, before 200.000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Cleaver-shaped with rounded butt. 584 grams, 16.6 cm
Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria - Acheulian industry of the Sahara. From an old Hamburg, Germany collection. -
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 Flint Arrowhead and Blade Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising mostly lentoid flint and chert arrowheads, a few tanged, together with a few blades; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 183 grams total, 26-81 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
