A Danish black stone axe head
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd Millennium B.C.
Boat-shaped, with rounded butt and convex sides, a convex curved blade and rectangular cross-section with curved sides, a circular hole for the handle, 15.2cm long注脚Provenance:
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in January 1993.

For similar, see A. MacGregor (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, p. 74, nos 4.173 and 4.174.