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LOT 1101
Stone Age Tenerian Stone Tool Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 7500-5300 B.C.
1 1/2 - 4 1/8 in. (643 grams total, 3.9-10.5 cm).
A group of 20 Tenerian Culture tools including, knives, scrapers, cores and awls. [20, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an exposed site, Tenera Region, of The Green Sahara, South Central Sahara.
Acquired 1960s-1970s.
From a private French collection.
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Stone Age Neolithic Polished Ceremonial Axe
Circa 10th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
A very finely polished axe with rounded sides tapering to a pointed butt with convex cutting edge in a mottled grey-green stone with white inclusions; with a custom-made wood stand bearing a label reading 'Neolithic Polished axehead 10,000-3,500 BC. / Originally from Musee Servaire. / Condat, France. Found in Brittany, Ploemel 1970s.' in three lines. 560 grams total, 20.3 cm high including stand
Pristine condition. Rare.
Found Brittany, 1970s. Acquired 2019 from Musee Servaire (Museum), Condat, France. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
The workmanship and quality in the polishing on this axe is beautifully achieved; such axes, especially when in exotic materials such as seen here, were most probably intended for presentation or ceremonial use and were widely traded. -
Stone Age Upnor Clactonian Flint Cleaver
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
An Upnor Clactonian flint cleaver, bearing collector's handwritten inventory information to one face 'Upnor 2B'. 402 grams, 93 mm
Found Upnor, 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. -
Large Danish Stone Age Neolithic Thin Butted Axe
Dolman Period, 3700-3300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
A deeply knapped and part polished axe with square sides and convex cutting edge, this edge with contemporary re-working by knapping, in grey chert; with old collector labels '186' and 'Danewerk lumb 2000' to faces. 767 grams, 20.5 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1980s. French private collection before 2020. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
