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LOT 1577
Large Stone Age Set of Tools Including a Re-worked Polished Axe from Farlington Marshes
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 YEARS B.P.
2 - 2 1/4 in. (106 grams total, 50-58 mm).
Group of three flints, one ovate with rounded edge and two with angled faces, one a reworked fragment; old labels '119' and '102' attached; old collector's label identifying the findspot as Farlington Marshes, Hampshire UK. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Farlington Marshes, Hampshire, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s.
Ex amateur archaeologist.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
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LOT 1577
Large Stone Age Set of Tools Including a Re-worked Polished Axe from Farlington Marshes
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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South East Asian Ban Chiang Polished and Knapped Tool Group
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising a polished lentoid-section blade, a pecked teardrop blade, a knapped lentoid-section blade and a long single-edged scraper; two with labels: 'Ban Chiang Neolithic / Stone Age Thailand'. 314 grams total, 57-129 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. -
Stone Age Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
With rounded butt and convex sides, curved cutting edge; coarse-grained stone; scar to one face behind edge. 612 grams, 11.6 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. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Of irregular form with some cortex; with an old inked inscription: '1408 Twydall'. 384 grams, 10.7 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.
