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Each with much cortex remaining and pencilled 'IOW' notation. 347 grams total, 92-99 mm

Found Isle of Wight, Hampshire, UK.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

With cortex to base and inked legend '8 ss 1038.C Twydall'. 871 grams, 15 cm

Found Twydall, Kent, UK, 1912-1915.
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 and collections list.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Triangular point with cortex; in old collector's sleeve with inked notation 'Mousterion . pink / a 8 kms north of Bergerac (Dordogne) around campsegret / [.] - 100,000 years old'. 82 grams, 86 mm

Found 8km North of Bergerac, near Campsegret, Dordogne France.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.

Accompanied by a copy of the relevant book pages where this handaxe is published.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Double-edged with a narrow point in creamy-brown patinated flint. 49.1 grams, 84 mm

Found near Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK, 1960s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

With deep orange patination, classic triangular shape; inked legend '2922' to tip. 84 grams, 85 mm

Ex Paris collection.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Made by Neanderthals.
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface flint and chert arrowheads, some triangular in section, slender and scaphoid in plan; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 148 grams total, 29-70 mm

UK gallery, early 2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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

Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
Highly polished with slightly concave sides, square butt, inked collector's note to one side. 510 grams, 21.7 cm

Found Scandinavia 25 May 1943.
From the private collection of John Fox, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, antiquarian and archaeologist; his collection assembled in the 1950s-1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Cf. Glob, P.V., Danske Oldsager: Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, items 232, 234.

Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface barbed and taged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 52 grams total, 33-58 mm

UK gallery, early 2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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

Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
Group of three flint arrowheads comprising leaf-shaped, triangular and chevron. 3.08 grams total, 26-34 mm

From North Africa.
From the collection of a French Museum in the Dordogne which closed some years ago.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.

Accompanied by a copy of the relevant book pages where this handaxe is published.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Published on page 79 of the Les Pyreneens De Lake Des Glaces, a book by the author Jean-Louis Guidez.

Lot No. 1561
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Triangular in section with curved beak, facetting to the flanks. 527 grams, 14.7 cm

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 79 grams total, 22-36 mm

UK gallery, early 2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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

Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
Lentoid in section with rounded blade. old collector's label 'Brecy'. 154 grams, 12.1 cm

From an old large French collection.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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