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LOT 1428
Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Knapped Flint Handaxe
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, 12,000-9,000 YEARS B.P.
5 1/2 in. (152 grams, 14.1 cm).
Irregular in form with curved cutting edge, marked 'Troussencourt'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Le Monchel, France.
From an old French collection formed in the 1930s.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Irregular crescent-shaped scraper with some cortex; with an old inked inscription: '4.SM.1113.C / Twydall'. 91 grams, 82 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. -
Stone Age Flint Microlith Group
Neolithic Period, circa 7th-3th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising a microlith scraper, arrowhead and others. 27.2 grams total, 14-40 mm
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Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Knapped Adze
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Triangular in section with parallel sides, broad butt and edge; marked 'Troussencourt'. 248 grams, 12.5 cm
Found Troussencourt, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
