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LOT 1471
Stone Age Flint and Other Tool Collection
MAINLY NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4TH MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
1 1/4 - 4 1/2 in. (22 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.) (3.35 kg total including case, 3.5-11.5 cm (case:57 x 36.5 x 6 cm)).
Including scrapers, burins, arrowheads and other items; in a glazed wooden display case with removable lid, green baize lining. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePreviously acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
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Stone Age Lakenheath Knapped Stone Tool Group
Palaeolithic-Neolithic Period, circa 200,000-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Group of three hand-axes; one with black inked inscription: 'ADZE / LAKENHEATH / 1974'. 596 grams total, 8.9-10.3 cm
Found Lakenheath, UK. From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Flint Arrowhead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 132 grams total, 22-61 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Most of these Western desert arrowheads found in the area of North Africa, from East Sahara to Fayum, fall in the first half of the 6th millennium B.C. and some may be dated back to the late 7th millennium B.C. In addition, the tanged arrowheads and leaf-shaped arrowheads, similar to the Fayum examples, are well-known in the Pottery Neolithic Culture of the southern Levant during the late 7th-early 6th millennia B.C. -
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Triangular burin; with an old inked inscription: '2.PB.1282.C / Twydall'. 48 grams, 70 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.
