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LOT 1563
French Stone Age Flaked Axehead from Brecy
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
4 3/4 in. (154 grams, 12.1 cm).
Lentoid in section with rounded blade. old collector's label 'Brecy'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an old large French 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.
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French Stone Age Acheulean Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 450,000-300,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Well made with a drop ovate form; inked legend ' St. Meme (FR / Charente / B. Amygdaloide / Acheuleen / Moyen'. 280 grams, 11.3 cm
From the well regarded long closed quarry site of St Meme, Charente, France. From an old large French 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.
Likely made by Homo Heidelbergensis or the first Neanderthals in to France. -
British Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, 4000-2300 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
A complete ground or polished stone axehead sub-ovate in plan, narrower at the butt end with a steep curve to the cutting edge, facetted ovate section with squared off sides. 172 grams, 97 mm
Found Tottle Brook, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK. From the private collection of John Fox, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, antiquarian and archaeologist; his collection assembled in the 1950s-1970s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Large Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface barbed and taged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 52 grams total, 33-58 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.
