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LOT 1541
Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
PALAEOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-6,000 B.P.
5/8 - 4 1/4 in. (285 grams, 1.7-10.7 cm).
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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British Stone Age Flint Knife from Fulbrook
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
With a thick facetted butt and a narrow scooped blade, with inked legend 'Near Fulbrook 1900'. 40 grams, 88 mm
Found near Fulbrook, Maidstone, Kent, in 1900. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent. After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Scraper Group
Neolithic Period, circa 5500-4500 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Mainly ovate scrapers with broad edge, some cortex to butt. 43 grams total, 26-50 mm
Found Bolton, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK. Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Stone Age Polished Macehead Group
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Comprising: one ellipsoid in plan with usage wear to the string face; one oblate in form with ground depression to each face where the shaft-hole has been started. 502 grams total, 73-97 mm
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection.
