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LOT 1540
Stone Age Handaxe from the Famed Acheulean Site of St Acheul
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 450,000-250,000 B.P.
3 7/8 in. (176 grams, 98 mm).
Handaxe with cortex to the broad rounded butt; old collector's label 'St. Acheul'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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.
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LOT 1540
Stone Age Handaxe from the Famed Acheulean Site of St Acheul
Sold for (Inc. bp): £624
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Stone Age Arrowhead and Scraper Group
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £59
Including narrow flint spearheads with barbs, D-shaped blades, pointed burins and other tools; the larger spearheads probable reproductions. 427 grams total, 3.3-14.5 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 Pecked Hammerstone
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Drum-shaped in profile and slightly tapering, rounded percussion face. 407 grams, 78 mm
Ex Simmons Gallery, 1990s. -
Stone Age British Flint Handaxe
Neolithic Period, 3500-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Biconvex in section with rounded butt and pointed cutting edge, some cortex remaining; small scooped depression to one face, perhaps the location of a shell or other inclusion. 158 grams total, 10.1 cm
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.
