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LOT 1132
Stone Age English and French Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 1 7/8 in. (34 grams total, 25-47 mm).
The group comprising: a leaf-shaped arrowhead with an old ticket 'Neolithic flint arrowhead 2800-1900 B.C.'; a tanged arrowhead' a leaf-shaped arrowhead in pink stone; a flake in grey flint with an old inked collection number 'RN219' to one side; a small leaf-shaped arrowhead with an old handwritten ticket 'from digging trenches in France 1917'. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a UK gentleman, acquired in the 1970s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
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Stone Age Flint Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising mostly leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads, including one tanged example; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 125 grams total, 21-43 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Stone Age British Acheulean Flint Bifacial Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £325
Cordiform handaxe with broad rounded butt. 353 grams, 13.1 cm
Found field walking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Ex English private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Stubby handaxe with old inked legend '2. SS.1275.C / TWYDALL'. 291 grams, 90 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.
