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.jpg "Greek Marble Head of Dionysus")
.jpg "Roman Veined Marble Torso of an Athlete")
.jpg "Large Middle Elamite Cylinder Seal of Kidnu, Chief Overseer of King Tan-Ruhurater II")
.jpg "Mesopotamian Torch Bearer Stand with Lion Tamer")
.jpg "Stone Age Part Polished Knapped Flint Axe")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Wedge-shaped in plan with convex cutting edge and butt, ridge to one cheek; handwritten collector's identification notes to one face reading 'Bardouville Seine Martime, France'. 91 grams, 88 mm
Found Bardouville, Seine Maritime, Normandy, France.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Found Bardouville, Seine Maritime, Normandy, France.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Rectangular in section with a square butt, gently curved polished edge. 392 grams, 14.2 cm
Found Denmark.
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 4.100, for type.
Found Denmark.
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 4.100, for type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Ovate in plan and triangular in section with inked '16 St Front' to one face. 260 grams, 11.3 cm
Found field walking in St Front, Dordogne Region, France.
From an old French collection formed in the early 1900s.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
Found field walking in St Front, Dordogne Region, France.
From an old French collection formed in the early 1900s.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Mainly with one flat and one ridged face, rounded butt. 168 grams total, 33-52 mm
Found North Africa.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Found North Africa.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Biconvex in profile with applied eyes and mouth, mounted on a custom-made stand. 78 grams total including stand, 36 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.
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.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising: one triangular in section with broad butt and narrow edge; one biconvex in section with broad curved edge. 290 grams total, 12-13.5 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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.21, for type.
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 1.21, for type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Including one D-shaped with angled cutting edge, one with acute facets forming the edge, and other types. 355 grams total, 40-69 mm
Found North Africa.
Ex Ian Richardson collection, Sunderland, UK.
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.
Found North Africa.
Ex Ian Richardson collection, Sunderland, UK.
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.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Ovate in plan with rod rounded egd; old collector's label 'Auchelien / Lalinde en Dordogne' (for 'acheuléen'). 163 grams, 10.5 cm
Found Lalinde, Dorogne, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Found Lalinde, Dorogne, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Knapped burin with cortex to rounded butt; with an old inked inscription: '8.HC.1021.A /Twydall'. 177 grams, 82 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 Beresford, F.R., Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection, in Lithics, Vol.39, 2021.
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 Beresford, F.R., Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection, in Lithics, Vol.39, 2021.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 132 grams total, 22-61 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
See Greenwell, David, F., Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information; cf. Noriyuki, S., ‘A missing Chapter of the Desert Fayum: Fayum Lithic Artefact Collection in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam’ in Archéo-Nil, no.21, april 2011, pp.115-146, pls.4,6, for the type.
Most of these Western desert arrowheads found in the area of North Africa, from East Sahara to Fayum, fall in the first half of the 6th millennium B.C. and some may be dated back to the late 7th millennium B.C. In addition, the tanged arrowheads and leaf-shaped arrowheads, similar to the Fayum examples, are well-known in the Pottery Neolithic Culture of the southern Levant during the late 7th-early 6th millennia B.C.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
See Greenwell, David, F., Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information; cf. Noriyuki, S., ‘A missing Chapter of the Desert Fayum: Fayum Lithic Artefact Collection in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam’ in Archéo-Nil, no.21, april 2011, pp.115-146, pls.4,6, for the type.
Most of these Western desert arrowheads found in the area of North Africa, from East Sahara to Fayum, fall in the first half of the 6th millennium B.C. and some may be dated back to the late 7th millennium B.C. In addition, the tanged arrowheads and leaf-shaped arrowheads, similar to the Fayum examples, are well-known in the Pottery Neolithic Culture of the southern Levant during the late 7th-early 6th millennia B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Biconvex in section with narrow butt and broad edge; marked 'Troussencourt'. 188 grams, 12.7 cm
Found Troussencourt, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Found Troussencourt, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Triangular in plan with some cortex; marked 'Le Monchel'. 163 grams, 11.1 cm
Found Le Monchel France.
From an old French collection formed in the early 1900s.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
Found Le Monchel France.
From an old French collection formed in the early 1900s.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
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