With broad cutting surfaces and thick butt. 254 grams, 99 mm



Found Sutton Courtenay, near Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.P50; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

Highly polished with broad convex cutting edge, body tapering to a narrow square butt. 288 grams, 11.8 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.

A carved and polished figurine with rounded head and broad shoulders, folded arms resting on each side of the protruding belly, legs folded beneath the body; mounted on a custom-made stand. 329 grams total, 99 mm including stand



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.

Most scholars consider these as symbols of the fertility cult and as evidence of the existence of a matriarchal society as a form of organisation of the earliest human society. The people of the Stone Age may have considered figures such as this to represent women and mothers with their life-giving powers, or as depictions of the ancestors.

Polished cordate form with pointed butt. 900 grams, 21 cm



Found UK. Ex British collection. Acquired from a Buckingham, UK, collection. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N193; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

Triangular in plan with some cortex in situ. 854 grams, 17.5 cm



Found Egypt. From a collection formed during the 1970s-1980s and acquired on the British art market. By descent to the current owner in 1988. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Discoid in plan with indented eyes. 213 grams, 98 mm



Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.

A Clactonian worked flint gouge; old collector's legend 'Upnor / A-3'. 278 grams, 12.4 cm



Found Upnor, 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.

Ovate in plan and biconvex in section, from a large flake. 312 grams, 12.4 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.

With narrow edge, ellipsoid-section body, pointed butt. 310 grams, 13.5 cm



Found Sheravoys Hills, Madras, India, circa 1922. Acquired Hemel Hempstead, UK, 31st April 2004. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N153; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

With regular profile, lentoid in section, thick rounded butt and broad point; cortex to one face. 529 grams, 15.1 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.

Fine grey flint with curved edge; highly polished. 251 grams, 91 mm



Found in Belgium. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N204; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

Knapped from high-quality glossy flint, with fine retouching; with old collector's label 'ASH / 28.4.19'. 94 grams, 97 mm



Found in Ash in Dorset, England, on 28 September 2019. From the collection of B.M., an amateur archaeologist who built up a large self-found collection during the 2000s to 2020. Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.