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LOT 1209
Stone Age Polished Bretagne Stone Axehead
4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/8 in. (220 grams, 13 cm).
Comprising a wedge-shaped, lentoid-section body; old hand written collection label: 'Douadic' to one face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceOld French collection until 2018.
Ex UK collection.
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Stone Age French Bifacially Knapped Chert Lanceolate Axe
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
With convex cutting edge tapering to a rounded butt; with inked 'neolithique / bretteville le rabat / hache biface / dec 1981' in four lines. 438 grams, 17.5 cm
Bretteville le Rabet 1991. From an old French collection. Acquired on the UK art market. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Core
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A flint core, likely showing evidence of the Levallois technique. 819 grams, 11.2 cm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age British Neolithic Flint Blade and Core Group
6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Composed of one core and three graduated blades, some with re-touching; one blade with pencilled collector's identification notes reading '2004 [S?]tutton Shore Suffolk'. 112 grams total, 47-78 mm
Found near Colchester, Essex, and Suffolk, 1990s. Property of an Essex gentleman.
