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LOT 0275
Very Large Danish Stone Age Polished Flint Axehead
EARLY TO LATE DOLMEN PERIOD, CIRCA 3700-3300 B.C.
8 5/8 in. (9 1/8 in.) (739 grams, 22 cm (848 grams total, 23.2 cm including stand)).
Thin-butted and of Nielsen Type III with straight sides and regularly rounded ends; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenancePreviously in the ownership of a Danish gentleman.
Acquired at Braun Rasmussen Auction House (part of Bonhams) in the 2020s.
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British Stone Age Fully Polished Axehead from Keith Hall
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
Tongue-shaped in profile and plano-convex in section with pointed butt; old collector's label 'Keith Hall 1898' with 'Keith in a second, later hand above. 376 grams, 12.4 cm (436 grams total, 15 cm including stand)
Found at Keith Hall, Farnham, in 1898. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent. After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction. -
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 English Flint Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising three knapped arrowheads, two tanged and one leaf-shaped. 6.15 grams, 21-36 mm
Found Dorset and Hampshire, UK. Ex N Thomas collection, Staffordshire, UK, 1980s-1990s.
