Large Blade Core - Michelsberg culture / Middle Neolithic - Spiennes – Belgium

Period: Michelsberg culture - Middle Neolithic

Object: Blade Core

Material: Flint

Age: circa 5500 years old

Discovery area: Spiennes, Mons region. Belgium

Condition: Some chips, no restoration. See pictures

Last collection: Belgian old collection

Inscribed in 2000 on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the site of the Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes was discovered in the mid-19th century (Briart et al., 1868; Collet, 2012a). It is an emblematic site of the mining phenomenon which developed from the end of the 5th millennium to the end of the 3rd millennium BC. Spiennes turns out to be the central site of the “Mons Basin mining complex” (Collin, 2016, 2019)

A white patina covers the entire piece, except at the place of the chips where we can see the natural dark gray color of this flint

Dimensions: 112 x 90 x 68 mm

Weight: 833 g

Divestment from my private collection

Bought legally from old collections or during public auctions

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