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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 Flaked Flint Handaxe
Mesolithic Period, 8th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Lentoid in section and ovate in plan, with narrow rounded butt. 42 grams, 85 mm
Found Suffolk, UK, 1980s. -
Stone Age Lozenge-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 95 grams total, 21-42 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. -
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Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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