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LOT 1584
Group of Stone Age Flint Tools, Scrapers, Blades and Cores
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9000-3450 B.C.
7/8 - 2 1/4 in. (390 grams total, 22-55 mm).
A mixed group of twenty-one worked blades and other flint tools. [21, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Portland Bill, Dorset, UK, 1970s.
Ex Hampshire, UK, collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Cf. PAS NARC-A2C32D, for similar examples.
FootnotesMesolithic men made use of a vast range of materials and mass-production techniques to make the special tools they needed. One of the oldest examples of a 'factory' intended for large-scale production was discovered by Grahame Clark, in the underground of a reclaimed field at Star Carr, Yorkshire.
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LOT 1584
Group of Stone Age Flint Tools, Scrapers, Blades and Cores
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
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Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
With narrow rounded butt and broad edge; old collector's legend 'TROUSSENCOURT' to one face. 150 grams, 11.4 cm
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe Group
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 480,000-250,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
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From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021. -
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Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising mainly leaf-shaped examples. 83 grams total, 23-44 mm
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