STONE AGE MASSIVE PIERCED CEREMONIAL AXEHEAD Neolithic, 5th-3rd millennium BC A large boat-shaped pecked and ground diorite axehead with square butt and round perforation; Scandinavian workmanship. 2.4 kg, 26cm (10 1/4"). Fine condition. Provenance From the family collection of a London gentleman; formed in the late 1940s-1950s; thence by descent. Literature See Glob, P.V. Danske Oldsager II Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, item 548 for type.
STONE AGE MASSIVE PIERCED CEREMONIAL AXEHEAD Neolithic, 5th-3rd millennium BC A large boat-shaped pecked and ground diorite axehead with square butt and round perforation; Scandinavian workmanship. 2.4 kg, 26cm (10 1/4"). Fine condition. Provenance From the family collection of a London gentleman; formed in the late 1940s-1950s; thence by descent. Literature See Glob, P.V. Danske Oldsager II Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, item 548 for type.
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