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LOT 1597
Stone Age 'Suffolk' Knapped Flint Tool Group
6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
1 1/4 - 2 1/2 in. (78 grams total, 33-67 mm).
Mixed group of points and ovate scrapers. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Suffolk, UK.
Property of a Nottinghamshire, UK, gentleman.
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Very Large Danish Stone Age Polished Flint Axehead
Early to Late Dolmen Period, circa 3700-3300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Thin-butted and of Nielsen Type III with straight sides and regularly rounded ends; mounted on a custom-made stand. 739 grams, 22 cm (848 grams total, 23.2 cm including stand)
Previously in the ownership of a Danish gentleman. Acquired at Braun Rasmussen Auction House (part of Bonhams) in the 2020s. -
Stone Age Tenerian Pecked and Part Polished Celt Axe
Neolithic Period, 9th-7th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
With round-section pointed butt and broad curved edge. 257 grams, 12 cm
From South Central Sahara. Ex private French collection, formed 1960s-1970s. 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).
