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LOT 2859
Pierrepont French Stone Age Neanderthal Knapped Flint Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, MOUSTERIAN, CIRCA 60,000 B.P.
2 3/8 in. (69.5 grams, 61 mm).
Cordate type with flake removed from centre of the underside; inked legend 'Pierrepont 14 / 22-4-93'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Pierrepont, Calvados, Normandy, France.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 2020s.
From a private collection.
Attributed to the Neanderthal man. An interesting example where the handaxe has also been used to strike off a flake across the middle of the reverse. This is sometimes seen during the Mousterian period and is a beneficial use of material when wanting to create a tool for the current job. The handaxe would have continued to be used and re- sharpened as normal. Dual-sided contrasting patina.
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LOT 2859
Pierrepont French Stone Age Neanderthal Knapped Flint Handaxe
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Circa 6000- 4000 B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Tongue-shaped in plan with broad butt, marked 'U.S.A. KA.05.x'. 14.5 grams, 76 mm
With the desired Hugh Fawcett Collection monogram. From the collection of a West Sussex, UK, collector.
Dr. Hugh Alderson Fawcett (1891-1982) was a general practitioner and antiquarian who built up an important collection of ancient implements, weapons and ornaments. The bulk of his collection is now in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, but Fawcett previously sold or traded some examples. His distinctive monogram and careful recording of provenance makes his pieces readily identifiable. -
Farnham Stone Age Knapped Flint Scraper
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Ovate in plan and biconvex in section with scooped forward edge. 34.6 grams, 45 mm
Found during the original official excavations in the Farnham area, Surrey, UK, which were conducted by Harold Falkner (1875-1963) and William Francis Rankine (c.1877-1962), who were instrumental in the excavation works and pit dwellings at sites including Six Bells, Frensham, Tilford, Thursley and Bagshot, and Waverley, amongst others, at and near Farnham in the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the material is now in the prestigious Farnham museum. The present part of the collection having been gifted to their good friend and Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham, who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew. -
Very Large Danish Stone Age Knapped Senonian Flint Sickle
Bronze Age Period, circa 3,500 B.P.Estimate: £180 - 240 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
With curved back and tapering ends, professionally repaired. 56 grams, 16.5 cm
Ex J. Sherman collection, U.S.A. From the private collection of a S.W. London, UK, gentleman.
