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LOT 1248
Stone Age Acheulian Hand Axe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, BEFORE 200.000 B.P.
6 1/2 in. (584 grams, 16.6 cm).
Cleaver-shaped with rounded butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceDiscovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria - Acheulian industry of the Sahara.
From an old Hamburg, Germany collection.
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Stone Age Axehead Fragment Group
Neolithic Period, 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising mostly fragments of pecked and ground stone axes, with part of a large knapped and polished flint type; this likely to be of Scandinavian origin. 1 kg total, 6.6-17.5 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Stone Age Knife Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising thirty flint knives. 88 grams total, 31-57 mm
From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Cleaver Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Formed on a thick irregular flake with one edge trimmed; with inked collection number: '1413 / TWYDALL'. 375 grams, 11.3 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.
