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LOT 1690
Stone Age Polished Grained Dolerite Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4000-2300 B.P.
4 1/4 in. (332 grams, 10.6 cm).
A complete ground or polished stone axehead sub-ovate in plan, narrower at the butt end with a steep curve to the cutting edge, facetted ovate section with squared off sides. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Skirpenbeck, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.YORYM-3B9FD3.
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): £143
Ovate in form with cortex to the rounded butt; bifacial type. 402 grams, 12.4 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 Egyptian Knapped Ovate Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 450,000-280,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
With thick butt and much cortex to the upper face. 180 grams, 10.6 cm
Found Egypt. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.P47; 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. -
Stone Age Twydall Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
With catalogue description '1075 Handaxe point on flake'; inked collector's legend '6.MP. 1075.C/Twydall'. 69 grams, 75 mm
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. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
