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LOT 1598
Stone Age Flint Scraper and Flake Tool Group
MESOLITHIC-EARLY NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9000-5000 B.P.
5/8 - 1 3/4 in. (56.8 grams total, 15-46 mm).
One round steep-sided scraper, a flake tool, and other items. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Thames Valley in the 19th century.
From an antiquarian Palaeolithic study collection, Shropshire, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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Stone Age Thick-Butted Knapped Axe Head
Nordic Neolithic Period, circa 4000-2000 B.P.Estimate: £400 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Dressed on all faces, symmetrical in profile with elongated, trapezoidal plan and rectangular cross-section; slightly curved broad sides, slanting neck with slightly rounded cutting edge; narrow faces with traces of retouching, broad faces partly polished at forward end, rear retouched for attachment of the haft; grey flint (silex), marbled in various shades of grey. 663 grams, 18 cm
Ex Dr Siegfried Zimmer, circa 1950. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age 'Antrim' Porcellanite Chisel, Scraper and Burnisher
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Comprising: ovate scraper with inked 'Larne 1972' and '1910-104', '54' to reverse; subrectangular burnisher with inked 'N7'; Broad chisel blade with inked 'M9-102'. 120 grams total, 51-81 mm
Found Tievebarragh, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, before 1979, Larne in 1972, and Glenarm area before 1979. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age 'Swanscombe' Flint Retouched Flake
Palaeolithic Period, circa 300,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Subtriangular in plan with broad butt; point broken in antiquity; labelled '57'. 66 grams, 67 mm
Found Milton Street, Swanscombe, Kent, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
