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LOT 1532
Stone Age Tenerian Pecked Celt Axe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 9TH-7TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
4 3/8 in. (238 grams, 11 cm).
With round-section shank and narrow butt, broad curved cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom South Central Sahara.
Ex private French collection, formed 1960s-1970s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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French Stone Age Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Lentoid in section and tongue-shaped in plan with mottled surface. 150 grams, 11.1 cm
Found Bois du Vernay, Rigny-sur-Arroux, France. From a collection built in the mid 1900s. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. -
Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
Palaeolithic-Neolithic Period, circa 200,000-6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Including scrapers and other tools, and debutage. 250 grams total, 20.6-68 mm
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s. -
Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface triangular barded and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 31 grams total, 20-29 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.