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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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Large Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface barbed and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 50 grams total, 32-50 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. -
French Stone Age 'Gravettian' Long Crested Blade
Upper Palaeolithic Period, circa 35,000-25,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
With square butt and narrow rounded tip. 44.9 grams, 13.6 cm
Found Dordogne, France. Ex M G Georgen collection. Mr Georgen built up a large collection during the mid 1900s and was sold at auction after his death. -
Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools
Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £17
Mainly scrapers of various sizes, some with inked accession number. 97 grams total, 36-73 mm
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
