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LOT 1574
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000 B.C.
5 3/8 in. (144 grams, 13.7 cm).
With tapering butt and curved cutting edge, plano-convex in section. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 3.3, for type.
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Stone Age Handaxe Group
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 450,000-200,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: one flat in section with rounded butt, the other plano-convex with broad cutting edge. 846 grams total, 14.2-14.3 cm
Old collection. Private collection, London. -
Stone Age Polished Kneeling Goddess Idol
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £390
A carved and polished figurine with rounded head and broad shoulders, folded arms resting on each side of the protruding belly, legs folded beneath the body; mounted on a custom-made stand. 365 grams total, 94 mm including stand
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.
Most scholars consider these as symbols of the fertility cult and as evidence of the existence of a matriarchal society as a form of organisation of the earliest human society. The people of the Stone Age may have considered figures such as this to represent women and mothers with their life-giving powers, or as depictions of the ancestors. -
Stone Age Partly Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
With broad curved edge and flat rear striking face; shank smoothed but unfinished. 270 grams, 94 mm
Possibly Irish. Acquired in Oxford, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N170; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
