Product Description
c.4000-3000 B.C. A large and very nicely worked Neolithic flint axe found some years back on the Beach at Holme-next-the-Sea, North Norfolk. [Holme Beach, North Norfolk, is famous as the location where the Prehistoric wooden Henge, known as "Sea Henge" was discovered in 1998 which comprised of a circle of 55 oak posts surrounding an upturned oak stump in the centre. Sea Henge was excavated and preserved and can now viewed in the Kings Lynn Museum, Norfolk]. This lovely flint axe has been expertly, bifacially worked from an attractive, mottled light and dark grey flint. It would appear that two pieces from the wider blade end fractured off during the striking process and this loss is entirely contemporary with the manufacture of the axe, as the ageing and patination is the exactly same on the fracture edge as it is on the rest of the axe. The axe may have been discarded during manufacture, but given that so much time would been expended in its manufacture, it may possibly have been used in the hand much like a flint pick. Other than the aforementioned ancient loss, this good sized Neolithic axe is otherwise intact throughout, in lovely condition with a most attractive light sheen ageing and patina to all surfaces and a very tactile piece to hold. Intact, this axe would readily command several hundred pounds, but this is a very affordable example of a nicely worked Neolithic axe, 153mm long x 58m wide x 23mm thick
