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LOT 1215
Stone Age Flint Tanged and Other Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 1 7/8 in. (73 grams total, 25-48 mm).
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. [50, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
LiteratureSee Greenwell, David, Fling Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.
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LOT 1215
Stone Age Flint Tanged and Other Arrowhead Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Stone Age Aterian Tanged Arrowhead Group
Circa 85,000-40,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising twenty transverse style arrowheads. 149 grams total, 30-47 mm
From Grotte des Pigeons in Taforalt, Morocco. From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
The tang would have been inserted into a split handle or shaft material, like wood or bone, and then bound in position with cord, or with a binding agent which would have harden to form a permanent bond. The Aterian is the name given to a distinctive stone tool industry made by anatomically modern humans between about 80,000 and 40,000 years ago. The tools are found on sites in northern Africa between the Atlantic coast to the Kharga Oasis and the western edge of the Nile River Basin. The manufacturing process for these tools is derived from the earlier Mousterian methods for working stone, using prepared and shaped cores from which were struck off large flakes which were then often unifacially trimmed into the desired tool shapes. They continued with the same basic stone working processes, but with a major conceptual difference. The Aterian style tools are the first to have clearly been designed and manufactured to be mounted on handles, with the projectile points and the scrapers having distinctive prepared tangs at the base of the tool or projectile point. -
Stone Age Danish Type Via Grey Flint Stiletto Dagger
Neolithic Period, circa 1500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
To the obverse an inked inscription in white: 'CC-70539', and to verso inked inscriptions in black: Denmark / Ex-Richard / Britton / 7-13' and 'HYY'. 61 grams, 14.6 cm
Previously with Lord McAlpine of West Green. The property of Richard Britton. From a U.S.A. private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
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.
