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LOT 1681
Stone Age Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
4 3/8 in. (192 grams, 11 cm).
Plano-convex in section with some cortex to the irregular butt; inked legend 'Sept.93 / Longeuil / Ste. Marie / 60'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceJean-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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Very Large Stone Age Knapped Blue-Grey Flint Scraper
Neolithic Period, 4th-2nd millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Triangular in plan with scooped point, cortex to one face. 223 grams, 12.2 cm
Found Caply, France. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection of French artefacts acquired prior to 2000. 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. -
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 Knapped Chopper
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 450,000-280,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Irregular in plan, water-worn with much cortex in situ, broad cutting edge; inked legend 'P2'. 220 grams, 10.8 cm
Found 410 Building, Westcott, Buckinghamshire, UK, 1970. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.P2; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
