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LOT 1726
Stone Age Pecked Hammerstone
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
2 1/8 in. (207 grams, 55 mm).
Blue-grey spherical hammerstone with inked identification '135 MH' and label 'Neolithic Hammerstone / Fen Edge Norfolk'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Fen Edge area, Feltwell, Norfolk, UK.
Acquired M.Younge, UK, 1973.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N11; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Stone Age Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Plano-convex in section with some cortex to the irregular butt; inked legend 'Sept.93 / Longeuil / Ste. Marie / 60'. 192 grams, 11 cm
Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), amateur prehistorian, former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West, Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France. Collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise and Val-d'Oise. Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Tool Group
Neolithic Period, 4th-2nd millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Group of irregular worked stone blades with much cortex. 689 grams total, 7.6-10 cm
Found Fontmaure, France. Acquired in the 1970s-1990s. From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023). From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Superb Stone Age Knapped Dark Red Pointed Flint Hand Axe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, 250,000-60,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Lentoid in section with point at each end, some cortex remaining. 154 grams, 11.2 cm
Found Aisne, France. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection of French artefacts acquired prior to 2000. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
