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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 Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead and Hammerstone Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Comprising two small polished D-shaped axeheads and one with a square butt; sub-spherical hammerstone. 394 grams total, 48-55 mm
Found North Africa. 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 Knapped Flint Hand Axe
Neolithic Period, circa 7th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Lentoid in section and ovoid in plan with some chipping to the rounded butt. 266 grams, 14.5 cm
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 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.
