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LOT 1216
Stone Age Flint Implement Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/2 - 3 7/8 in. (608 grams total, 37-98 mm).
Comprising a group of mixed stone implements, mostly in flint or chert and knapped, including blades, scrapers and points; some broken and probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [31, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Large Stone Age Belgian Flint Implement Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 8,000-6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Comprising: large blade cores (4); long blade flakes (3) and a finely knapped slender axe with convex cutting edge tapering to a near pointed butt; most with inked 'Spiennes' findspot note and with eleven inked and typed paper tickets giving details, some dated to 1950s. 3.5 kg total, 14 - 23 cm
Found Spiennes, Belgium French private collection. French export certificate no.231265 issued on 05/01/2022, EU licence 2022DMF0651.
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Hand Axe Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Formed on a triangular core with two edges trimmed, one finely; with inked collection number: 'TWYDALL / 10.ss.1017.A'. 180 grams, 81 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 Tenerian Culture Celt Axe
Neolithic Period, 7500-5300 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Pecked and ground with a curved cutting edge and a narrow rounded butt. 285 grams, 11.1 cm
From the Tenera Region, South Central Sahara. From a private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.
