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LOT 1555
Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
PALAEOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-6,000 B.P.
3/8 - 2 1/4 in. (254 grams total including box, 10-58 mm).
Mixed group of points, scrapers and other tools embedded in a foam matrix for transportation. [16, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Double-edged with broad edge and square butt, in blue-grey patinated flint. 170 grams, 13.4 cm
Found Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Tool Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 5500 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Mainly ovate and triangular types, some with inked 'XA' reference. 85 grams total, 30-49 mm
Found South of Peronne, France. Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
French Stone Age 'Neanderthal' Bout Coupe Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 300,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Cordate in plan in deep black flint with a satin patina; mounted on a custom-made stand. 149 grams, 93 mm (190 grams total, 11.6 cm)
Found Dordogne, France. From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936 -2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West; also a Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France; his collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s, and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise, Val-d’Oise and the Dordogne.
