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LOT 1236
Large Stone Age Belgian Flint Implement Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 8,000-6,000 B.P.
5 1/2 - 9 in. (3.5 kg total, 14 - 23 cm).
Comprising: large blade cores (4); long blade flakes (3) and a finely knapped slender axe with convex cutting edge tapering to a near pointed butt; most with inked 'Spiennes' findspot note and with eleven inked and typed paper tickets giving details, some dated to 1950s. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Spiennes, Belgium
French private collection.
French export certificate no.231265 issued on 05/01/2022, EU licence 2022DMF0651.
Footnotes
The blade cores and blades are very similar in form and size to the famous 'livres de beurre' examples found at Grand Pressigny, France.
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