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LOT 1566
Stone Age Large Flint Blade and Burin Group
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 28,000-22,000 YEARS B.P.
2 3/4 - 4 5/8 in. (99 grams total, 7-11.7 cm).
Each with inked findspot: 'Gravière Saint-Onger / Bergerac / JRV', 'Vallée de la Cou[..] / 14.3.68', 'Rabier / près Lac[.]queres' (and feint pencilled 'Rabier' below). [3, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Graviere, Lanquais and De LaCoulc, France, in the 1960s.
Acquired in the 1970s-1990s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023).
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