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LOT 1567
Stone Age Tenerian Pecked Celt Axe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9000-7000 B.P.
2 3/4 in. (217 grams, 71 mm).
With round-section broad butt flaring to a curved cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx French collection formed 1960s-1970s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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Stone Age French Grey Stone Scraper
Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
Ovate in plan with thick butt; old collector's label 'Palæolith[ic] / France'. 53 grams, 58 mm
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s. -
French Stone Age 'Neanderthal' Bout Coupe Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 300,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Cordate in plan in deep black flint with a satin patina; mounted on a custom-made stand. 149 grams, 93 mm (190 grams total, 11.6 cm)
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. -
Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface triangular barded and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 31 grams total, 20-29 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
