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LOT 1701
Stone Age Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
4 7/8 in. (402 grams, 12.4 cm).
Ovate in form with cortex to the rounded butt; bifacial type. [No Reserve]
Provenance
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.
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