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LOT 1480
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
STONE AGE TARN-ET-GARONNE BIFACIAL NEANDERTHAL AXEHEAD
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 60,000-40,000 YEARS B.P.
2 7/8 in. (107 grams, 74 mm).
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 60,000-40,000 YEARS B.P.
2 7/8 in. (107 grams, 74 mm).
A Mousterian handaxe, plano-convex in profile with natural cavity to the butt; old collector's label 'Biface Moustérien / 60/40.000 and / Tarn et Garonne'. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Found Tarn-et-Garonne, France.
Acquired from Brian Beveridge, Oxford, UK, 14 March 2004.
Acquired from a Buckingham, UK, collection.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N39; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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