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LOT 1238
Stone Age Flint Knife Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 - 4 in. (300 grams total, 5-10.2 cm).
Comprising twenty eight specimens with sharp cutting edges. [28, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
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Stone Age French Flint Flake Scraper Implement
Upper Palaeolithic Period, circa 100,000-40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Showing well defined bulb of percussion, with edges retouched to form a smoothly curved scraper; with inked 'La Pojouderic / 11183' find spot note. 44 grams, 70 mm
Found La Pojouderic, France. French private collection. Accompanied by a copy of the French cultural passport no.226793. -
Stone Age Chert Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Broad and bifacially knapped, on a large flake with convex point and rounded butt, showing some cortex; with custom-made display stand. 765 grams total, 19 cm including stand
Old German collection, before 1920. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Cleaver Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Formed on a heavy triangular cross-section flake with one edge trimmed; with inked collection number: '4K.1096.C / TWYDALL'. 310 grams, 10.1 cm
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.
