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LOT 1433
Stone Age Pierced Stone Boat-Shaped Battle Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 3/4 in. (517 grams, 12.2 cm).
With slightly convex cutting edge, square butt; steeply angled edge to one face, gentle curve to the underside. [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. Evans, Sir J., Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, 2nd edition, 1897, items 55, 56, 66.
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Neolithic Period, circa 4000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Biconvex in section with square butt and broad cutting edge, regular in shape. 1.3 kg, 22 cm
Found whilst fieldwalking in the Melton Constable area, Norfolk, UK, in the 1960s; thence by descent to the finder's daughter. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector. -
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Irregular scraper; with an old inked inscription: '2.PB.1215.C / Twydall'. 58 grams, 75 mm
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.
