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LOT 1240
Stone Age Tenerian Culture Flint Tool Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 7500-5300 B.P.
1 3/4 - 3 1/4 in. (300 grams total, 46-83 mm).
Comprising twenty tools, including knives, scrapers and cores. [20, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Tenera Region, of South Central Sahara.
From a private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.
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Stone Age Massive Stone Cleaver
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Formed on a large smooth cobble with a crude knapped cutting edge to one end; with custom-made display stand. 1.99 kg total, 19 cm including stand
Belgian private collection. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Of triangular form with slightly flattened tip and rounded butt; with printed and inked 'MADIJEN / EI:190M / THEBES / 1905' find spot label; with custom-made display stand. 290 grams total, 16 cm including stand.
Found Thebes, 1905. British private collection. -
Stone Age Part Polished Knapped Flint Axe
Neolithic Period, 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Wedge-shaped in plan with convex cutting edge and butt, ridge to one cheek; handwritten collector's identification notes to one face reading 'Bardouville Seine Martime, France'. 91 grams, 88 mm
Found Bardouville, Seine Maritime, Normandy, France. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
