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LOT 1507
Stone Age Flint Tool Group
MESOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 8TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/4 - 3 1/2 in. (403 grams total, 46-88 mm).
Comprising: a Grimes Graves, Norfolk, flint blade core; a black flint Mesolithic scraper found on the foreshore of River Orwell. near Orwell Bridge, Ipswich, Suffolk; a scraper from Yorkshire; a worked flint 'net weight'(?) from Holderness Coast, East Riding of Yorkshire; some with old inked notation. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Norfolk, Suffolk and Yorkshire, UK.
Ex old British collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
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Stone Age Bifacially Knapped Flint Knife
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Roughly D-shaped with broad cutting cleaver blade, much cortex remaining to both faces. 523 grams, 13cm
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 Teardrop-Shaped Knapped Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Flaked cobble, lozengiform in section with broad butt and rounded point. 318 grams, 12 cm
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 Handaxe from the Famed Acheulean Site of St Acheul
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 450,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £624
Handaxe with cortex to the broad rounded butt; old collector's label 'St. Acheul'. 176 grams, 98 mm
Found St Acheul, 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.
St Acheul is the type-site from which the Acheulian Period is named.
