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LOT 1222
Stone Age British Neolithic Polished Flint Axe
CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/8 in. (292 grams, 13 cm).
With slightly convex cutting edge tapering with squared sides to a near square butt which shows evidence of possible use as a strike-a-light. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound UK.
UK collection since the 1990s.
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Neolithic Axehead
Circa 4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Wedge-shaped in profile with a narrow butt and slightly convex cutting edge. 188 grams, 12 cm
Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Stone Age Flint Knife Group
Neolithic Period, 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising 29 specimens. 300 grams total, 5-10.2 cm
Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Core
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A flint core, likely showing evidence of the Levallois technique. 819 grams, 11.2 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.
