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LOT 1592
Stone Age Flint Arrowhead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 1 3/4 in. (83 grams total, 23-44 mm).
Comprising mainly leaf-shaped examples. [40, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Arthur Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
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Biconvex in section with large rounded butt and narrow tip (absent). 1 kg, 17 cm
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Irregular-shaped; with an old inked inscription: '8.SM.1028.A Twydall'. 68 grams, 74 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. -
Stone Age 'Cissbury Vineyard' Flaked Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4300-2300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
With narrow butt and rounded cutting edge, old inked legend 'Cissbury Vineyard 7/4/73'. 152 grams, 12.3 cm
Found Cissbury Vineyard, Sussex, UK, 1st April 1973. Ex an important Cambridgeshire collection by descent. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.