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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 Flint Tanged and Other Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising mostly mixed types of flint and chert arrowheads, including leaf, tanged, barbed and tanged and hollow base types; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 73 grams total, 25-48 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Stone Age Pierced Battle Axe-Hammer
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
With rounded butt and convex sides, pierced for attachment to the handle. 921 grams, 18 cm
Found near Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, by the vendor's father. Property of a Suffolk lady.
Axe-hammers like this one were used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for building. The great number of stone axes and axe-hammers from Nordic European areas are a measure of how densely populated some parts of the Europe had become by five thousand years ago. -
Stone Age Upnor Flint Multiple Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Formed on a keeled flake with trimming at edges forming crude scraping elements and a boring point; with inked collection number: 'Upnor 42'. 164 grams, 75 mm
Found Upnor, 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.
