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LOT 1559
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
4 7/8 in. (262 grams, 12.3 cm).
Piriform body with pointed tip, an old handwritten label on one side. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Test Road, Huzbourough Copse, Hampshire, UK, June 1965.
From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s.
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LOT 1559
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
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Very Large Spiennies Stone Age Long Knapped Flint Blade
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Curved slender blade with grey-white patina, small iron deposit to one end. 48.9 grams, 19.4 cm
From the world-renowned and now a world heritage flint factory site of Spiennes, France. From the UK art market. Accompanied by three illustrated collector's information pages. -
Stone Age Flint Debitage
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 700,000-300,000 B.P. or laterEstimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular in plan with two old collection notes '4307/1/28' and 'SNC 1.83 W.G.S.' 89 grams, 78 mm
Previously in several old Stone Age tool collections, having been annotated with two different accession numbers. Acquired from an Oxfordshire, UK, auction house. From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector. -
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Giant French Stone Age 12 Inch Acheulean Knapped Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 650,000-350,000 B.P.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £600
Made from a tabular nodule utilising its cortex as the grip, long cutting edges with a dual patina; attributed to Homo heidelbergensis. 2.1 kg, 30.5 cm
From Car Bouresches, Haut-de-France. Acquired in the 1970s-1990s. From the collections of the famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023). Acquired on the UK art market. From a private collection.
