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LOT 1227
Stone Age Knife Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/4 - 2 1/4 in. (88 grams total, 31-57 mm).
Comprising thirty flint knives. [30, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
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Stone Age Polished Blackstone Axehead
Neolithic, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £319
Of slender, wedge-shaped form with chamfered, convex cutting edge and angled butt. 289 grams, 20 cm
Private UK collection formed 1990s-2000s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Stone Age British Knapped Flint Axehead
Mesolithic Period, 15th-10th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Being a slender knapped flint axe of generally triangular cross-section with convex cutting edge tapering slightly to a rounded butt; in a white patinated grey-brown flint as typically seen with chalk downland finds in southern England. 129 grams, 13.5 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
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.
