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LOT 1264
Stone Age Flint Knife Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/2 - 3 1/4 in. (195 grams total, 39-82 mm).
Comprising thirty knives and some other implements. [30, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Cleaver Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Formed on a large flake with one edge trimmed; with inked collection number: '1342 / I.TWYDALL'. 154 grams, 93 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 'Boxgrove' Knapped Flint Hand Axe
Upper Palaeolithic, 40000-10000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Formed bifacially on a thick core of roughly triangular cross-section tapering from a finely formed convex point to a broad and thick butt, in white calcined flint; with inked inscription: 'LONG DOWN HALNAKER 1957'. 500 grams, 15 cm
Found Long Down, Halnaker Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex, UK, in 1957. Property of Mr A.B., an American collector. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Cleaver Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Formed on a thick irregular flake with one edge trimmed; with inked collection number: '1413 / TWYDALL'. 375 grams, 11.3 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.
