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LOT 1496
Stone Age Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/2 in. (612 grams, 11.6 cm).
With rounded butt and convex sides, curved cutting edge; coarse-grained stone; scar to one face behind edge. [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 6.19.
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Round-butted axehead with cortex to edge and both faces; marked 'BUIGNY'. 197 grams, 12 cm
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
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Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age 'York' Polished Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Comprising one trapezoidal in profile with square butt, one similar with waisted profile and narrow butt, one squat with broad butt; one with faint inked inscription: 'KINGSTON / YORK'. 441 grams total, 85-101 mm
One found Kingston, York, UK. 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.
