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LOT 1592
Stone Age 'Homo Erectus' Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 300,000-120,000 B.P.
5 5/8 in. (6 in.) (454 grams, 14.3 cm (506 grams total, 15.2 cm including stand)).
Lentoid in section and cordate in profile, made from a Levallois flake; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound North West Africa.
Formally part of a French collection built up in the mid 1900s.
Acquired on the UK art market from Mr P M based in Kent.
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French Stone Age Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Biconvex in section with broad butt, rounded tip. 234 grams, 12.4 cm
Found Bois du Vernay, Rigny-sur-Arroux, France. From a collection built in the mid 1900s. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. -
British Stone Age Flint Knife from Fulbrook
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
With a thick facetted butt and a narrow scooped blade, with inked legend 'Near Fulbrook 1900'. 40 grams, 88 mm
Found near Fulbrook, Maidstone, Kent, in 1900. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent. After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction. -
Neanderthal Knapped Quartzite Scraper Group
Mousterian Period, circa 80,000-40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Each with one worked cutting edge; mostly triangular in section. 227 grams total, 53-73 mm
Found Bois du Rocher, St. Helen, Dinan, France. From an old French collection. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
