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LOT 1568
Stone Age Polished Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
6 1/4 in. (486 grams, 16 cm).
Piriform in plan and lentoid in section, tapering towards the square butt; broad crescentic blade.
ProvenanceFound Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK.
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LOT 1568
Stone Age Polished Flint Axehead
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Stone Age Votive Pottery Offering Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6500-6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising a waisted bowl, bird-head and pierced column. 157 grams total, 42-50 mm
Acquired prior to 1920. From an old Dutch collection. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
French Stone Age 'Neanderthal' Handaxe with Fossil Echinoid
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 300,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Triangular in profile and biconvex in section with some cortex and embedded fossil to one face; mounted on a custom-made stand. 458 grams, 12.1 cm (516 grams total, 16 cm including stand)
Found Dordogne, France. From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West; also a Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France; his collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s, and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise, Val-d’Oise and the Dordogne.
An extremely rare artefact due to the fossil Echinoid being retained on the front of the handaxe and utilised during its creation. Dual silky patina from being sat within nutrient-rich soil, which contrasts against the remaining golden orange cortex. Attributed to Neanderthal - Mousterian in the form of the Acheulean (MTA). -
British Stone Age Crescent Flint Scraper from Farnham
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
D-shaped with broad cutting edge, cortex to the rear. 49 grams, 54 mm
Found Farnham, Kent, in 1901. 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.
