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LOT 1557
Stone Age Flint Scrapers and a Burin from the Famous La Gravette Site
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 28,000-22,000 YEARS B.P.
2 5/8 - 2 3/4 in. (103 grams total, 68-71 mm).
Two with applied collector's label 'La Gravette' and identifier 'R' and 'T'. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Gravette, Dordogne, France.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
The Gravettian tools making culture is named after the type site of Gravette, Dordogne, France, each has clear intricate re-touch.
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LOT 1557
Stone Age Flint Scrapers and a Burin from the Famous La Gravette Site
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
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Stone Age Tool and Artefact Group
6th-4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Including flint scrapers and a small cleaver. 162 grams total, 23-66 mm
Found on various UK sites since 1974. Property of an Essex collector. -
Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
With broad square butt and rounded edge, some cortex remaining; old collector's legend 'TROUSSENCOURT' to one face. 161 grams, 10.1 cm
Found Troussencourt, Northern France. Ex old French collection. Acquired prior to 2000. From a private Norfolk, UK, collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Small kidney-shaped implement; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS.1284 A Twydall'. 26.6 grams, 58 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.
