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LOT 1525
Stone Age British Flint Tool Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 3500-2000 B.C.
1 5/8 - 4 in. (613 grams total, 4.1-10.3 cm).
Comprising ovate scrapers, flint points, burins and other types, some with cortex remaining. [12, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
With a flat underside and some cortex showing on the domed upper face; with an old inked inscription: '1.1330 Twydall'. 78 grams, 63 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. -
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Stone Age 'Calvados' Flaked Axe
Neolithic Period, circa 8000-3000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Triangular in section with broad cutting edge, old collector's label 'Hache Taillée / Roche Gréseuse / L14cm. Néolithique / Calvados / 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo Sapiens Sapiens' 297 grams, 13.5 cm
Found Calvados, France. -
Stone Age Hand Axe Group
Palaeolithic Period, circa 300,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
One leaf-shaped and one irregular, each with inked legend 'Morocco-Algeria Border'. 673 grams total, 10.7-11.6 cm
Found Morocco-Algerian border, North Africa. Ex UK collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
