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LOT 1461
Stone Age Speckled Stone Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/4 - 4 in. (644 grams total, 71-100 mm).
Group of three axeheads each with a thick, rounded butt; two with narrow worked edge and one with rounded edge. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Ian Richardson collection, Sunderland, 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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.151, for type.
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Stone Age Flint Scrapers with Reproduction Axes and Spearheads
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Mixed group including some ancient scrapers and modern copies of axes and spearheads. 636 grams total, 2.5-26 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1970s onwards. -
Stone Age Flint Scraper and Other Implement Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising nineteen knapped tools and one polished implement. 405 grams total, 3.2-13.4 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
In the Neolithic the continuing predominance of flint artefacts did not stop the evolution of the society. The neolithic people were different in radical way from their predecessors. Farming rather than hunting was now the basis of the human existence, creating slowly but inesorably a more sedentary way of life in villages of timber-houses. Consequently the artefacts created by the men of Neolithic were tool instruments, like axes used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for construction. -
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Stone Age 'Salisbury' Grey with Cortex Knapped Flint Axe
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Thin-butted and trapezoidal with remains of cortex. 321 grams, 14.5 cm
Found whilst fieldwalking in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Ex English private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
