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LOT 1233
Stone Age Flint Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 - 2 3/8 in. (200 grams total, 23-62 mm).
Comprising mostly bifacial leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads, with a few uniface types; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [59, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
LiteratureSee Greenwell, David, Fling Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.
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Stone Age Knife Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising thirty flint knives. 88 grams total, 31-57 mm
From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Scraper Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Formed on a slightly curved flake with one sharpened convex edge; with inked collection number: '1.1343 / .TWYDALL'. 73 grams, 84 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 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.
