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LOT 1527
Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
PALAEOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-6,000 B.P.
7/8 - 3 1/8 in. (267 grams total, 23-81 mm).
Including scrapers and other tools, and debutage. [14, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
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French Stone Age 'Neanderthal' Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 250,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Cordiform in profile and very well made from a colourful dense sandstone/quartzite material; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 274 grams, 12.6 cm (313 grams total, 14.5 cm including stand)
Found Ermonville, Oise, France. Acquired on the UK art market in the 2020s. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Blade
Mesolithic Period, circa 9000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Triangular in section with cortex to the thick back, lateral pitting. 129 grams, 10.3 cm
Found near Norwich, Norfolk. From an old Norfolk collection formed during the 1960s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 73 grams total, 21-32 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
