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LOT 1546
Very Large Stone Age Quartzite Pebble Chopper from Fontsorbes
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 500,000-250,000 B.P.
5 1/8 in. (1.2 kg, 13 cm).
A lightly worked cobble fragment with broad cutting edge; produced by the first inhabitants of Southwest France. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Fontsorbes, Haute Garonne, France.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s.
From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
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LOT 1546
Very Large Stone Age Quartzite Pebble Chopper from Fontsorbes
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
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Large Stone Age Oval Pecked Stone Macehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Ellipsoid in plan with shallow socket to each face. 1.22 kg, 14.5 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
The opposed depressions imply that the creator had begun the process of making the vertical mounting socket. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe Group
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: triangular flint blade broken at butt with old inked inscription 'Arment./ZC.6'; irregular curved cleaver, triangular in section with old inked inscription 'Arment./ZC.7', cortex remaining to the reverse; triangular flint blade with straight butt and old inked inscriptions 'Verneuil / J4.137.5' and '73.4'; long flake blade with applied sticker 'D', old inked inscription 'Verneuil / J4.141.N' and 'D.'. 392 grams total, 8.3-12.4 cm
From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021.
'Arment.' in these inscriptions may refer to Armentières on the Franco-Belgian border. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
With a flat underside and some cortex showing on the domed upper face; with an old inked inscription: '1.1330 Twydall'. 78 grams, 63 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.
