12th Dec, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 359
 

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A British Coup-de-Poing Bifacial Flint Hand Axe, Middle Acheulean Palaeolithic (300,000-200,000...

A British Coup-de-Poing Bifacial Flint Hand Axe, Middle Acheulean Palaeolithic (300,000-200,000 BC), ink collection reference number, "No.304". Label now lacking but previously recorded as No.47 and inscribed "slightly twisted" and "used" in another hand, 7.9 cm, 114.8 g; another, numbered, "No.305". Label now lacking but previously recorded as No.45 and inscribed "Twist pronounced" in Inness' hand, 7.1 cm, 74.2 g; a large flake, numbered, "307" and inscribed, "Kilroot (?)" (Inness label now lacking but recorded as No.75), 7.5 cm, 36.1 g; a blade or arrow head, numbered, "No. 39", further inscribed, "Antrim", 5.3 cm, 10.1 g, and a scraper, numbered, "No. 33", further inscribed, "Co. Antrim". Bearing Inness label, numbered 78 and inscribed, "Neos Late scraper Co. Antrim", 7.3 cm, 14.9 g (5)

Provenance: All items ex Inness Collection.

Sold for £500
Estimated at £150 - £200


 

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 12th Dec, 2018

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