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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]
Provenance
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.
Footnotes
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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