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Lot 116

A Danish flint dagger and eleven Neolithic flint implements
together with four other flints
16

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£1,500 - £2,000

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A Danish flint dagger and eleven Neolithic flint implements
Late Neolithic, circa 2000-1700 B.C.
The dagger of grey flint with slender leaf-shaped blade, the slightly flared grip of lozenge cross section; the flint implements including a Danish dark grey flint lunate sickle, 11.3cm long; three flint arrowheads and a leaf-shaped example; a pointed tool; a small thin butted axe; a discoidal scraper; and three flint tools, 17.5cm long max.; together with four other flints (16)

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Provenance:
Private collection, UK, acquired prior to 1986.

The above dagger belongs to Scandinavian flint dagger Type II. For an example of a Danish flint dagger with similarly proportioned grip and blade, see A. MacGregor, Antiquities form Europe and the Near East in the collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, p. 80, fig. 4.217.

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