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LOT 0310
Stone Age Acheulean Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 600,000-350,000 B.P.
5 1/8 in. (235 grams, 13 cm without stand).
Well made with a thin sharp profile, likely made by Homo Heidelbergensis; marked at the butt 'Bif Cordiforme Allonge St. Même Audoin Charente'; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceFrom the well regarded long closed quarry site of St Meme, Charente, France.
From an old large French collection.
Acquired on the European art market.
From a UK private collection.
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British Stone Age Flint Handaxe from Farnham
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-350,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Lentoid in section with broad edge and butt; mounted on a custom-made stand. 380 grams, 11.4 cm without stand
Found Farnham, Surrey, UK, in 1901. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent.
After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction to a gentleman in Kent. The collection was then sold again in the 2020’s via a UK auction house. -
'Published Lord McAlpine' Stone Age Polished Axe Head
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
A thin-butted handaxe of trapezoidal outline in dark brown flint; marked 'M1784'. 156 grams, 10.4 cm
From the private collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, UK. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. -
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Large Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface triangular barded and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 43 grams total, 29-49 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
