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LOT 1621
Stone Age Polished Axe Head
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
4 1/4 in. (338 grams, 10.8 cm).
Fully polished and of a rounded D-shaped section with tapering butt and gently curved cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection purchased on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
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Large Stone Age Homo Erectus Stone Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 1,000,000-500,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Lentoid in section and cordiform in plan with broad thick butt and rounded tip. 148 grams, 95 mm
From North Africa. Part of a French collection built up in the mid 1900s, and sold via a European auction house. Acquired from Mr P.M., Kent, UK. -
Stone Age Knapped Arrowhead and Implement Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Including tanged and lanceolate arrowheads, scrapers and other types. 63 grams total, 17-63 mm
From the African Sahara region. Acquired from a Scottish auction house. From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector. -
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Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface triangular barbed and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 24 grams total, 20-31 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
