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LOT 1553
British Stone Age Knapped Axehead
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.C.
3 1/4 in. (49.1 grams, 84 mm).
Double-edged with a narrow point in creamy-brown patinated flint. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound near Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK, 1960s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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French Stone Age Mousterian Levellious Point
Middle Palaeolithic Period, Mousterian, circa 150,000-60,000 B.PSold for (Inc. bp): £156
With deep orange patination, classic triangular shape; inked legend '2922' to tip. 84 grams, 85 mm
Ex Paris collection. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Made by Neanderthals. -
Published Stone Age 'Homo Erectus' Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 450,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Lentoid in section and piriform in plan with broad cutting edge. 462 grams, 12.9 cm
From North Africa. From the collection of a French museum in the Dordogne which closed some years ago. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. Accompanied by a copy of the relevant book pages where this handaxe is published. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped and Other Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 78 grams total, 20-41 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
