Stone Age Polished Boat-Shaped Axehead

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

5 1/8 in. (565 grams, 13 cm).

Finely polished in grey-green stone with asymmetric convex cutting edge curving to circular collared 'hammer' butt; pierced centrally to receive wood haft with shallow raised collar to underside.

Provenance

Formerly acquired in the late 1950s.
From the family collection of a South East London collector.

Literature

See MacGregor, Arthur ed., Antiquities From Europe and the Near East in the Collection of The Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, no.4.177, for similar form.

CONDITION

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