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LOT 1717
Stone Age Pecked and Polished Black Stone Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
4 3/4 in. (743 grams, 12.1 cm).
Featuring a rounded butt and a round socket.
ProvenanceFrom an old English, UK, collection.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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LOT 1717
Stone Age Pecked and Polished Black Stone Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
Sold for (Inc. bp): £259
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-350,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
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Stone Age Clactonian Flint Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 700,000-300,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Slender body with a rounded blade, inked collection number '4163/1/28'. 179 grams, 11.3 cm
Previously in an old Stone Age tool collection, having been annotated with an accession number. Acquired from an Oxfordshire, UK, auction house. From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector. -
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000-60,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Piriform body in cream-coloured flint, with remains of an old handwritten label on one side. 572 grams,19 cm
Found Test Road, Huzbourough Copse, Hampshire, UK, August 1965. From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s.
