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LOT 1952
Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 60,000 B.P.
6 1/4 in. (1.23 kg, 16 cm).
Ovate in profile and lentoid in section with broad butt and rounded point; some cortex to one face.
ProvenanceFound close to the Palaeolithic Neanderthal site of Lynford Quarry, Norfolk.
Private collection, London, UK.
Lynford Quarry, a famous and well-documented site, sits on the edge of an ancient channel of water where Neanderthals thrived and hunted. When excavated many years back, hundreds of flint tools were unearthed alongside thousands of butchered bones and teeth of mammoths, woolly rhinos and deer. This axe may have been used for crushing bones to extract the nutritious marrow.
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LOT 1952
Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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UK gallery, early 2000s.
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Neolithic Period, 3rd millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Substantial leaf-shaped core with parallel facets to one face, some cortex to reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand. 6.82 kg total, 31 cm
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