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LOT 1219
Stone Age Massive Implement Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 - 12 3/4 in. (3 kg total, 12.6-32.5 cm).
Comprising a massive axe-shaped stone implement trimmed by knapping, with two pecked and ground stone hand implements, possibly for use with a saddle-type stone quern. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Of triangular form with slightly flattened tip and rounded butt; with printed and inked 'MADIJEN / EI:190M / THEBES / 1905' find spot label; with custom-made display stand. 290 grams total, 16 cm including stand.
Found Thebes, 1905. British private 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 Danish Neolithic Knapped Flint Axe
Circa 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
In veined amber-coloured flint, bifacially knapped with convex cutting edge tapering with squared sides and butt; likely from the early Single Grave culture. 750 grams, 16.5 cm
Found Sealand, Denmark. From the private collection of a County Durham, UK, gentleman.
