Loading, please wait...
LOT 1469
Stone Age Arrowhead Collection
5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 - 2 5/8 in. (135 grams total, 21-68 mm).
Mixed group including scaphoid, tear-shaped, triangular and other types. [25, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK private collection, acquired in the 1950s-1960s.
Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.
TimeLine Auctions follows a vetting process to ensure the authenticity and legality of all items, reinforcing our commitment to integrity and responsible trading. Each antiquity, antique, and coin lot undergoes thorough examination by a vetting committee of at least ten external specialists, professional trade association members, scientists, and archaeologists: Our Vetting Process
AUCTIONS:
TimeLine is a leading auction house specialising in antiquities, ancient art, collectables, natural history, coins, medals, and books. Our auctions offer museums, collectors, historians, and enthusiasts the opportunity to acquire unique and historically significant pieces.
-
Large Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Scraper Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
With inked inscription: '8.K.1047.A / TWYDALL'. 310 grams, 11.1 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. -
.jpg)
Large Stone Age 'Happisburgh Type' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
A serious collector's piece from the site of the oldest known stone tools in the UK and North West Europe; possibly of Wymer's Type C, worked around a fossil in the flint; on the reverse, a fossil sponge inclusion. 566 grams, 11.4 cm
Found Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2019. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-E4FF9A. -
.jpg)
Exceptionally Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 7th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Square in section with broad rounded butt and only slightly narrower tip, polished, some cortex remaining. 2.05 kg, 33 cm
From the property of Mr O.S., a late Suffolk, UK, gentleman, who acquired at auction from the 1960s.
