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LOT 1466
Stone Age Flint Scrapers with Reproduction Axes and Spearheads
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.-20TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 - 8 1/2 in. (516 grams total, 3-21.5 cm).
Group of genuine flint scrapers accompanied by modern axe and spearhead types. [8, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1970s onwards.
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LOT 1466
Stone Age Flint Scrapers with Reproduction Axes and Spearheads
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Stone Age Acheulian Cleaver Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
With a typical brownish patina. 781 grams, 15.5 cm
Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria. From an old Hamburg, German, collection. -
Stone Age Polished Green Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Teardrop-shaped with pointed butt and crescent cutting edge. 122 grams, 86 mm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age 'Bacton' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 240,000- 38,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Sub-cordiform handaxe with white cortex to the butt. 253 grams, 84 mm
Found Bacton, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2020.