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Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £31,200
Sold for (Inc. bp): £48,100
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46,800
Mixed group including scrapers and other items; offered with three large and three small reproduction arrowheads. 351 grams total, 2.4-10 cm

Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Triangular burin; with an old inked inscription: '4.FB.1116.A / Twydall'. 62 grams, 68 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.

Lot No. 1496
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Triangular in profile with suspension hole to the apex; mounted on a custom-made stand with collector's label 'Neolithic Pendant Sahara 5000 B.C.'. 68 grams total including stand, 38 mm

Found Sahara, North Africa.
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.

D-shaped scraper with waxy surface; with an old inked inscription: '1.1338 / Twydall'. 39 grams, 61 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.

Square in section with rounded butt, cortex remaining. 196 grams, 13.7 cm

Found Normandy, France.
From a French collection formed in the 1960s.
Acquired on the French art market.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.

Triangular, lozengiform and other types. 15 grams total, 21-29 mm

Found North Africa.
UK gallery, early 2000s.

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

Rectangular in section with rounded butt and striking face. 369 grams, 11 cm

From the collection of a London, UK, professional.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.

Triangular in section with parallel sides, broad butt and edge; marked 'Troussencourt'. 248 grams, 12.5 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.

Polished cordate form with narrow butt; green stone from Cumbria. 312 grams, 11.5 cm

Acquired on the UK art market between 1994-2004.
From the collection of a Stirlingshire, UK, gentleman.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.

Triangular in section and teardrop-shaped with small portion of cortex at the butt. 134 grams, 10.2 cm

From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector, by inheritance.

Ovate in plan with thin, lentoid section. 96 grams, 85 mm

Found Plazac, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Rectangular in plan with thin butt, made from a blade core. 343 grams, 10.5 cm

Found Spiennes, Belgium.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

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