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LOT 1521
Stone Age English Flint Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
1 - 1 3/8 in. (6.95 grams total, 24-36 mm).
Comprising three arrowheads, including one tanged and leaf-shaped. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Dorset and Hampshire, UK.
Ex N. Thomas collection, Staffordshire, UK, 1980s-1990s.
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Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface triangular barded and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 31 grams total, 20-29 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. -
British Stone Age Flint Knife from Farnham
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Leaf-shaped in plan with broad rounded butt, some cortex. 14.9 grams, 58 mm
Found Farnham, Kent, in 1901. 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. -
French Stone Age 'Homo Heidelbergensis' Colourful Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-350,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Cordate in profile with deep orange, yellow and purple glossy patina; mounted on a custom-made stand. 239 grams, 99 mm (282 grams total, 12.1 cm including stand)
From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West; also a Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France; his collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s, and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise, Val-d’Oise and the Dordogne.
Attributed to Homo Heidelbergensis.
