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LOT 1479
Stone Age Knapped Axehead Group
MESOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 10,000-4000 B.P.
4 - 5 in. (287 grams total, 10.2-12.7 cm).
Comprising: teardrop-shaped burin with polished faces; triangular-section blade with rounded ends. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenancePreviously acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
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Stone Age Danish Knapped Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Plano-convex in section with old collector's labels: to verso '392/MORS' and 'DENEMARKEN' to recto. 245 grams, 10.7 cm
Found Denmark. From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Flint Arrowhead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 132 grams total, 22-61 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Most of these Western desert arrowheads found in the area of North Africa, from East Sahara to Fayum, fall in the first half of the 6th millennium B.C. and some may be dated back to the late 7th millennium B.C. In addition, the tanged arrowheads and leaf-shaped arrowheads, similar to the Fayum examples, are well-known in the Pottery Neolithic Culture of the southern Levant during the late 7th-early 6th millennia B.C. -
Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Ovate in plan and biconvex in section with inked 'Troussencourt' findspot. 241 grams, 10.6 cm
Found Troussencourt, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
