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LOT 1723
Stone Age Thick-Butted Knapped Axe Head
NORDIC NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4000-2000 B.P.
7 in. (663 grams, 18 cm).
Dressed on all faces, symmetrical in profile with elongated, trapezoidal plan and rectangular cross-section; slightly curved broad sides, slanting neck with slightly rounded cutting edge; narrow faces with traces of retouching, broad faces partly polished at forward end, rear retouched for attachment of the haft; grey flint (silex), marbled in various shades of grey.
ProvenanceEx Dr Siegfried Zimmer, circa 1950.
LiteratureCf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, pl.17 p.63, for type.
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LOT 1723
Stone Age Thick-Butted Knapped Axe Head
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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