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LOT 1112
Stone Age Acheulian Cleaver Hand Axe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, BEFORE 20,0000 B.P.
5 1/2 in. (463 grams, 14.1 cm).
A large Acheulian cleaver-shaped hand axe with a sharp cleaver point on the distal end and a worked rounded base; continuous retouching to the edges. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceDiscovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria.
From an old Hamburg, Germany collection.
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Large Danish Stone Age Neolithic Thin Butted Axe
Dolman Period, 3700-3300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
A deeply knapped and part polished axe with square sides and convex cutting edge, this edge with contemporary re-working by knapping, in grey chert; with old collector labels '186' and 'Danewerk lumb 2000' to faces. 767 grams, 20.5 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1980s. French private collection before 2020. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Large Danish Stone Age Neolithic Thin Butted Axe
Dolman Period, 3700-3300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
A finely knapped and polished axe with convex cutting edge and square sides in a grey chert; evidence of use as a 'strike-a-light' to the butt; old collector label '162' to face. 805 grams, 18 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1980s. French private collection before 2020. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Stone Age Twydall Retouched Flint Implement
Lower Paleolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A retouched Twydall flint implement, bearing handwritten collector's inventory id. to the body '[ ]B. 1125 C. Twydall'. 149 grams, 70 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.
