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LOT 1501
Stone Age Bifacially Knapped Flint Knife
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 in. (523 grams, 13cm).
Roughly D-shaped with broad cutting cleaver blade, much cortex remaining to both faces. [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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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. -
Stone Age Knapped Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: one with broad butt and squared cutting edge; one similar with rounded edge. 1.1 kg total, 12.8-14.2 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.
