Stone Age Polished Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, 3rd-2nd millennium B.C. Finely polished in grey-green stone with asymmetric convex cutting edge curving to circular collared 'hammer' butt; pierced centrally to receive wood haft with shallow raised collar to underside. See MacGregor, Arthur ed., Antiquities From Europe and the Near East in the Collection of The Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, no.4.177, for similar form.565 grams, 13 cm (5 1/8 in.). Formerly acquired in the late 1950s. From the family collection of a South East London collector.For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price