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LOT 0309
Large Stone Age Acheulean Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 500,000-350,000 B.P.
6 1/8 in. (669 grams total including stand, axe: 15.6 cm).
Substantial leaf-shaped type with some cortex to the butt; inked findspot 'St Même / Charente / Car Audouin (FR)'; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceFrom the well regarded long closed quarry site of St Meme, Charente, France.
From an old large Belgian 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.
Attributed to Homo Heidelbergensis.
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Stone Age Flint Ovate Arrowhead
Neolithic Period, circa 5000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
A nicely knapped leaf-shaped arrowhead in light brown flint, with old collector's number to verso: '24'. 1.87 grams, 30 mm
Found Thames Valley in the 19th century. From an antiquarian Palaeolithic study collection, Shropshire, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Flint Scraper Group
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: discoid in plan with inked label 'Bricketwood Herts 17.7.1972'; ovate in plan with inked label 'South Wiltshire 1968', 'N8-75', (1) and (3); ovate in plan with cortex to reverse, inked label 'Wessex 1972 N*-74' and '4a' to reverse. 141 grams total, 55-70 mm
Found South Wiltshire 1968, Wessex 1972, and Bricketwood, Herts 17 July 1972. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Standing Goddess Idol Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £598
Comprising a pair of idols carved in the round with emphasised hips and vestigial head and limbs; each mounted on a custom-made stand. 1.55 kg total, 15-19 cm including stand
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12335-224212. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Most scholars consider these as symbols of the fertility cult and as evidence of the existence of a matriarchal society as a form of organisation of the earliest human society. The people of the Stone Age may have considered figures such as this to represent women and mothers with their life-giving powers, or as depictions of the ancestors.
