A British Neolithic small black polished stone axe head, with tapered butt and curved blade, chamfered edges -- 3 7/8in. (9.8cm.) long, circa 4000-2000 B.C.; an Acheulean beige flaked flint hand axe, with pointed tip and rounded end -- 5in. (12.7cm.) high, Paleolithic, circa 5000 B.C.; a Neolithic black knapped spearhead; and a cream flint leaf-shaped arrowhead -- 2 1/8in. (5.5cm.) and 1 3/8in. (3.5cm.) long respectively, circa 3rd millennium B.C.

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A British Neolithic small black polished stone axe head, with tapered butt and curved blade, chamfered edges -- 3 7/8in. (9.8cm.) long, circa 4000-2000 B.C.; an Acheulean beige flaked flint hand axe, with pointed tip and rounded end -- 5in. (12.7cm.) high, Paleolithic, circa 5000 B.C.; a Neolithic black knapped spearhead; and a cream flint leaf-shaped arrowhead -- 2 1/8in. (5.5cm.) and 1 3/8in. (3.5cm.) long respectively, circa 3rd millennium B.C.
See Illustration for item one (4)

Provenance

Item one: Cumberland, probably the Lake District
The Lord McAlpine Collection
Item two: France

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Item one: A. MacGregor (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, p. 90, no. 6.9

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