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LOT 1602
Stone Age Implement Group
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 450,000-200,000 B.C.
2 - 6 1/4 in. (396 grams total, 5-16 cm).
Comprising: triangular handaxe with square butt; bifacial knife with square butt; small scraper; cordate scraper with spike, marked 'BBM2/25.9.84'. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceGrey implement: ex old Nordic collection.
Old French collection.
Private collection, London.
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Stone Age Polished Porcellanite Axehead
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Rectangular in section with mottled polished surface, narrow butt; old collector's label 'N3'. 169 grams, 89 mm
Found Tievebarragh Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Acquired from Peter Farncis, in 1979. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N3; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Large Group of Flint Knives and Tools
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Mixed group of grey flint scrapers and other tools; with inked find spot legend 'Touvent'. 151 grams total, 59-80 mm
Found Touvent, Northern France. From an old French collection. Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector. -
Stone Age 'Giant's Causeway' Polished Green Stone Hand Axe
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Lentoid in section and trapezoidal in plan; old inked find spot legend 'Giants Causeway / IRE 94'. 235 grams, 90 mm
Found Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland, 1894. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N161; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
