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Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,850
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,750
Sold for (Inc. bp): £41,600
Sold for (Inc. bp): £32,500
Sold for (Inc. bp): £29,900
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
Lot No. 0357
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CELTIBERIAN GOLD NECK TORC
Sold for (Inc. bp): £14,950
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22,100
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13,650
Roughly rectangular core axe with rounded edge and small patch of cortex to one face. 208 grams, 15 cm

From a very old collection based on the cabinet patination.
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.

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 3.2.

With long square-ended butt, slightly lenticular-section body expanding to a broad curved cutting edge; smooth polished finish; small repair. 357 grams, 14 cm

From a very old English collection based on the cabinet patination.
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.

Cf. similar item in the collection of the British Museum under accession no.WG.1541.

Axes of this type were produced in the later Neolithic by expert knappers and polishers; these designs influenced early Bronze Age products such as the flat axes which eventually developed into palstave axeheads.
Small D-shaped scraper with old inked inscription '4.SS.1138.C / TWYDALL'. 64 grams, 55 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.

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.

Group of genuine flint scrapers accompanied by modern axe and spearhead types. 516 grams total, 3-21.5 cm

Ex London, UK, collection, 1970s onwards.

With broad butt and rounded cutting edge. 302 grams, 10.7 cm

Found by a field walker in Warsash, Hampshire, UK, in 1998.

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.20, for type.

Group of three worked flints comprising a triangular arrowhead, a biconvex blade and a scraper with some cortex remaining. 292 grams total, 62-85 mm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Lot No. 1469
4
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Mixed group including scaphoid, tear-shaped, triangular and other types. 135 grams total, 21-68 mm

From a UK private collection, acquired in the 1950s-1960s.
Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.

Sandstone boat-shaped mortar with upwardly curved peak, central socket; mounted on a custom-made stand with ol collector's label 'NorthWestern Sahara / Upper Palaeolithic'. 757 grams, 13.5 cm wide

From the North West Sahara.
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.

Including barbed and tanged arrowheads, crescent scrapers and other items. 10.4 grams total, 16-39 mm

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.

With a rounded butt. 396 grams, 12 cm

From Bergerac, France.
From a Norfolk, UK, collection.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.

Cordiform handaxe with cortex to one face, old inked inscription '2.SS.1241.C / TWYDALL'. 157 grams, 76 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.

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.

With narrow conical butt and asymmetrical curved edge. 343 grams, 16.6 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.

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 5.6, for type.

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