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LOT 1572
French Stone Age 'Mousterian' Levellious Spear Tip
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
3 1/2 in. (69 grams, 88 mm).
Triangular in plan with broad rounded butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Yonne, Bourgogne Franche-Compte Region of France.
Formally part of a French collection built up in the mid 1900s.
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Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
Palaeolithic-Neolithic Period, circa 200,000-6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Including scrapers and other tools, and debutage. 250 grams total, 20.6-68 mm
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Tool Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 5500 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Mainly ovate and triangular types, some with inked 'XA' reference. 85 grams total, 30-49 mm
Found South of Peronne, France. Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
French Stone Age 'Neanderthal' Handaxe with Fossil Echinoid
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 300,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Triangular in profile and biconvex in section with some cortex and embedded fossil to one face; mounted on a custom-made stand. 458 grams, 12.1 cm (516 grams total, 16 cm including stand)
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.
An extremely rare artefact due to the fossil Echinoid being retained on the front of the handaxe and utilised during its creation. Dual silky patina from being sat within nutrient-rich soil, which contrasts against the remaining golden orange cortex. Attributed to Neanderthal - Mousterian in the form of the Acheulean (MTA).
