Neolithic, 3rd-1st millennium BC. A group comprising a small pecked mace head of ovate form, each side with a pecked dimple to aid attachment to a shaft; together with a smooth grinding pestle having oval flat grinding surface to base, tapering up to a round butt. See Evans, Sir John, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, London, 2nd edition, 1897, figure 161A, for similar mace and figure 170, for an example of a mortar stone with pestle. 855 grams total, 7-11cm (3 - 4 1/2"). From a North Yorkshire collection formed since the 1980s; thence by descent. [2, No Reserve]