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LOT 1561
Stone Age Arrowhead and Other Artefact Group
MAINLY 4TH-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 - 2 3/8 in. (167 grams total, 18-60 mm).
Knapped flint blades and other items, some with old collector's labels or inked findspot legend. [40, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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Large Stone Age South Downs Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Tongue-shaped in profile with rounded butt and straight edge; some cortex remaining. 405 grams, 19.5 cm
Found South Downs, Sussex, UK. Acquired from Mr Edwards in November 2002. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N160; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Stone Age British Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Squat and rounded with old collector's label 'North[...] / used as / a hammer / Sheveroys / 18.8[..]'. 256 grams, 82 mm
Found UK. From an old private collection. Acquired in Oxford, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N168; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Small Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and scaphoid flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 96 grams total, 21-37 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
