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Lot No. 1136
7
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Knapped flint axehead; with old inked collection number 'P.S.P227.' to verso. 72 grams, 90 mm

Found Woolstone, Oxfordshire, UK, in 1938.
Property of a Stowmarket, UK, gentleman.

Accompanied by an old identification card.

Lot No. 1137
5
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Comprising two carinated vessels with integral handles, and a globular vessel with pricked decoration. 345 grams total, 5.5-10 cm

Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.

Large triangular form, inked inscription 'MOROCCO - ALGERIAN / BORDER', heavily patinated. 592 grams, 15 cm

Found Morocco or Algeria, North Africa.
Ex UK collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Lot No. 1140
2
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising thirty-seven microliths. 26 grams total, 14-20 mm

Found at the foot of Perry Hill, London SE6 in 1922.
Ex private London, UK, collection.

Irregular handaxe with old inked legend ''1484 / Twydall' on the remnants of cortex. 416 grams, 13.5 cm

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.

The Twydall finds are discussed in F.R. Beresford Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection in Lithics Vol.39, 2021.

Comprising thirty flint projectile points. 110 grams total, 35-63 mm

Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.

A scraper or small chopper from the Cromerian-Anglian Interglacial Period, with inked inscription 'PAKEFIELD CLIFFS / SUFFOLK'. 130 grams, 82 mm

Found Pakefield Cliffs, Suffolk, UK.
Ex British collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Substantial triangular-section core with cortex to the surface; old inked legend '1803 / TWYDALL'. 430 grams, 12.5 cm

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.

The Twydall finds are discussed in F.R. Beresford Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection in Lithics Vol.39, 2021.

Comprising fifty arrowheads in a variety of sizes, one with a tang. 109 grams total, 21-38 mm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Heavily knapped form, dark drown in colour with inked inscription: 'NORTH / NORFOLK / 1930-60'S'. 10.59 grams, 40 mm

Found North Norfolk, UK, 1930-1960s.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Accompanied by a previous typed catalogue slip.

Lot No. 1147
12
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Davis Group 11 type, comprising a leaf shaped blade with a chamfered edge, and two circular peg holes on both sides of the socket. 130 grams, 16.9 cm

Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Rylstone, North Yorkshire, UK, circa 2018.

Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.YORYM-E5C837.

Lot No. 1148
4
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
The round-section body with incised herringbone and linear decoration; sacrificially unravelled and now forming a large loop with one coiled end. 320 grams, 45 cm wide

UK private collection, 1990s.
Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.

Cf. Bietti-Sestieri, A.M. and Macnamara, E., Prehistoric Metal Artefacts from Italy (3500–720 BC) in the British Museum, London, 2008, fig.615, for similar; Hambleton, J.M., Fibulae of the ninth through seventh centuries BC in Central Italy, Florida, 2008, fig.2-2b.

The spectacle fibula was widely distributed from the Balkans and northern Greece to southern Italy. Seven variations occur under this type with modifications made to the discs of the fibulae as well as the central connecting device. In the first and second variations the discs are coiled, whereas in the third and fourth the centre of the coil is left open. The figure eight loop also becomes shorter and wider in the fourth variant.
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