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Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,850
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £41,600
Sold for (Inc. bp): £32,500
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
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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
Group of four trapezoidal axeheads, each with a gently curved cutting edge. 224 grams total, 39-70 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.

Comprising: three irregular spherical hammer-stones; cylindrical hammer with flat striking face. 1.18 kg total, 60-74 mm

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.fore 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 6.23.

With cylindrical body and flat butt, broad curved cutting edge. 232 grams, 12.3 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.

With facetted point and lentoid section. 646 grams, 18.5 cm

Found Reims, France.

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.26.

With a narrow rounded but and elongated body. 475 grams, 16 cm

From St Jacques, France.
Ex M Allias collection, 1910s.
From a Norfolk, UK, collection.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.

Mixed group including some ancient scrapers and modern copies of axes and spearheads. 636 grams total, 2.5-26 cm

Ex London, UK, collection, 1970s onwards.

Triangular in section with broad cutting edge, old collector's label 'Hache Taillée / Roche Gréseuse / L14cm. Néolithique / Calvados / 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo Sapiens Sapiens' 297 grams, 13.5 cm

Found Calvados, France.

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.4, for type.

Comprising an ovate flint scraper, domed and with elements of the original cortex still in situ, and a smaller chert cordiform handaxe; inked inscription 'Nile' to verso, and '#745.' to verso. 312 grams total, 66-97 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.

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, items 1.11 and 1.14, for types.

Group of gouges and handaxes including a 'livre de beurre' core. 668 grams, 10.8 - 18 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 5.33.

With rounded butt and slightly curving cutting edge. 190 grams, 90 mm

From a private French collection formed in the 1960s–1970s.

Dressed stone panel with incised image of a horned animal in profile; mounted on a custom-made stand. 15.15 kg, 34.5 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.

Irregular in form with worked cutting edge, inked inscription '1684 / TWYDALL'. 245 grams, 10.3 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.

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