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LOT 1263
Stone Age Flint Knife Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/2 - 2 3/4 in. (237 grams total, 39-70 mm).
Comprising thirty knives and some other tools. [30, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, before 200.000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Cleaver-shaped with rounded butt. 584 grams, 16.6 cm
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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
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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.
