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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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Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £44
Double-edged with curved edge and square butt, in blue-grey patinated flint and upper face white with some cortex. 168 grams, 13.3 cm
Found Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK. -
Stone Age Knapped Tanged Point and Scraper Collection
Aterian Period, circa 80,000-40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Mainly irregular ovate types with some cortex remaining. 138 grams total, 45-76 mm
Found Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco, North Africa. Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 73 grams total, 21-32 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.
