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LOT 1758
Stone Age British Yellow-Orange Flint Hand Axe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 250,000-60,000 B.P.
4 in. (188 grams, 10.3 cm).
Plano-convex in section with narrow cutting edge; marked 'Ridge 1991' in white ink. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound from 20th century excavations at the well-known and highly collectable Palaeolithic site at Ridge Pit, Romsey, UK.
From a British private collection formed prior to the beginning of the 2000s.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Stone Age Perforated Polished Axe Blade
Neolithic Period, 5500-2400 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Polished and worked on all sides to a symmetrical, almost trapezoidal shape flaring slightly towards the curved cutting edge; slightly rounded neck; grey stone (flint) with lighter and darker, partly greenish hues; conical perforation formed from both faces; one fragment reattached. 403 grams, 16.2 cm
Ex Bernard Lemoine (b.1937), Normandie. French art market, 2022. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Stone Age Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Plano-convex in section with some cortex to the irregular butt; inked legend 'Sept.93 / Longeuil / Ste. Marie / 60'. 192 grams, 11 cm
Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), amateur prehistorian, former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West, Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France. Collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise and Val-d'Oise. Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Stone Age Polished Grey Whetstone
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Rectangular-section bar with rounded sides due to edge-polishing; inked legend 'A24', 'M2'. 300 grams, 15 cm
Acquired Stephen Murray, UK, 1979. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N2; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. Accompanied by an original old black and white photograph. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
