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LOT 1535
Danish Stone Age Knapped Flint Borer and Scraper Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
1 1/2 - 2 3/4 in. (130 grams total, 38-71 mm).
Including ovate, plano-convex and other types. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Cuffley, Hertfordshire and North Creake, Norfolk, UK.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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Found Dordogne, France. From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936 -2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West; also a Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France; his collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s, and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise, Val-d’Oise and the Dordogne.
