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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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Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000-60,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Trapezoidal in plan with vivid purple, opaque cream and carrot-yellow colours. 89 grams, 92 mm
Found Fontmaure, 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. -
Stone Age Decorated Pierced Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Triangular in plan with curved edge, gusset to the reverse face. 179 grams, 81 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 Knapped Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 480,000-250,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Ovoid in profile and biconvex in section with narrow tip (absent) and broad butt; small portion of cortex to butt. 225 grams, 11.1 cm
From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West, as well as an Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France. This collection of flints was assembled between the 1950s and 1990s and originates from Ile-de-France, Oise, and Val-d'Oise.
