Prehistoric European Stone Axe Celt Neolithic Period 3600 BC - 2200 B.C.

Superb quality prehistoric, European stone hand axe-celt. Stone Age, Neolithic Period (Dating from broadly 3600 BC to 2200 BC)

The hand axe-celt is extremely well knapped and polished from creamy-beige flintstone hand axe-celt of thick-butted form with convex, almost semi-circular, nicely polished blade with finely profiled cutting edge.

The Trapezoidal shape axe is knapped into a thick and rounded butt end for gripping, the body widening towards the blade tip and an acutely angled blade edge which is still sharp even after thousands of years. Tools like these examples are part of the technology that marked Neolithic life in northwestern Europe, alongside farming, pottery, and longhouses.

For related axe in the collection of The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford, England please see the link below:

Provenance: Ex Private old French collection of antiquities.

Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

CONDITION: Showing its age and usage, with nice old shiny patina.

Ther are two paper labels glued to the axe one stamped w with collection number 60 and the other one inscribed in French. The blade is bearing of the celt is bearing handwritten modern scripts.

DIMENSIONS:

Length: 13 cm (5.12 inches).

Width in the widest point: 6 cm (2.36 inches).

Thickness: 3.5 cm (1.38 inches).

Weight: 314 grams (11.076 oz).