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LOT 1454
Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 3/8 in. (122 grams, 86 mm).
Teardrop-shaped with pointed butt and crescent cutting 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.
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Stone Age British Grey and White Knapped Flint Ficron Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 480,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
With one convex and one straight side, rounded butt, broad tip. 384 grams, 12.3 cm
Found UK. British private collection formed from the 1970s-1990s; thence by family descent. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Large Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Irregular in form with broad cutting edge, old inked inscription '1804 / TWYDALL'. 569 grams, 13.4 cm
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 Polished Stone Flataxe
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
With long square-ended butt, slightly lenticular-section body expanding to a broad curved cutting edge; smooth polished finish; small repair. 357 grams, 14 cm
From a very old English collection based on the cabinet patination. 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.
Axes of this type were produced in the later Neolithic by expert knappers and polishers; these designs influenced early Bronze Age products such as the flat axes which eventually developed into palstave axeheads.
