Comprising a group of mixed stone implements, mostly in flint or chert and knapped, including blades, scrapers and points; some broken and probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 608 grams total, 37-98 mm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Of triangular cross section tapering from a slender point to a convex butt; with custom-made display stand. 1.69 kg total, 34 cm including stand

Old German collection, before 1920.

Knapped bifacial hand axe of neat form with slightly rounded butt and pointed tip; with old inked 'SOMALI / Seton Karr / Coll. / K' label and a 2020 printed auction 'Part Lot 1851' label; with custom-made display stand. 290 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand

Found North Africa.
Ex Seton Karr collection.

Comprising a massive axe-shaped stone implement trimmed by knapping, with two pecked and ground stone hand implements, possibly for use with a saddle-type stone quern. 3 kg total, 12.6-32.5 cm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Formed on a slightly curved flake with one sharpened convex edge; with inked collection number: '1.1343 / .TWYDALL'. 73 grams, 84 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.

Being a slender knapped flint axe of generally triangular cross-section with convex cutting edge tapering slightly to a rounded butt; in a white patinated grey-brown flint as typically seen with chalk downland finds in southern England. 129 grams, 13.5 cm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

See Palmer, Susan, Mesolithic Cultures of Britain, Dolphin, 1977, pp.92-93, for similar examples.

Formed on a triangular core with two edges trimmed, one finely; with inked collection number: 'TWYDALL / 10.ss.1017.A'. 180 grams, 81 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.

Basalt or similar natural stone pebble with crudely knapped cutting or chopping edge; with inked KADA / Gona / Athiopien' findspot note and numbered '55'; with custom-made display stand. 340 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand

Found near Kada Gona, Ethiopia in the 1960s.
Subsequently Stark collection, Germany.
Later with the Celtic and Prehistoric Museum, Dingle, Country Kerry, Republic of Ireland.

The Oldowan implements, mostly comprising roughly knapped or chipped stone pebbles that provide crude cutting edges, are some of the most ancient artefacts made by the earliest recognised hominids, typified by the discoveries at Oldovan Gorge in Africa, found there by the Leakey family.

Comprising mostly uniface lentoid flint and chert arrowheads, a few tanged; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 134 grams total, 31-61 mm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

See Greenwell, David, Fling Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.

Of slender, wedge-shaped form with chamfered, convex cutting edge and angled butt. 289 grams, 20 cm

Private UK collection formed 1990s-2000s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.

Comprising twenty transverse style arrowheads. 149 grams total, 30-47 mm

From Grotte des Pigeons in Taforalt, Morocco.
From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.

The tang would have been inserted into a split handle or shaft material, like wood or bone, and then bound in position with cord, or with a binding agent which would have harden to form a permanent bond. The Aterian is the name given to a distinctive stone tool industry made by anatomically modern humans between about 80,000 and 40,000 years ago. The tools are found on sites in northern Africa between the Atlantic coast to the Kharga Oasis and the western edge of the Nile River Basin. The manufacturing process for these tools is derived from the earlier Mousterian methods for working stone, using prepared and shaped cores from which were struck off large flakes which were then often unifacially trimmed into the desired tool shapes. They continued with the same basic stone working processes, but with a major conceptual difference. The Aterian style tools are the first to have clearly been designed and manufactured to be mounted on handles, with the projectile points and the scrapers having distinctive prepared tangs at the base of the tool or projectile point.

Comprising thirty flint knives. 88 grams total, 31-57 mm

From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.