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LOT 1136
Stone Age Flint Tranchet Axe
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 7,500 B.C.
3 1/2 in. (72 grams, 90 mm).
Knapped flint axehead; with old inked collection number 'P.S.P227.' to verso. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Woolstone, Oxfordshire, UK, in 1938.
Property of a Stowmarket, UK, gentleman.
Accompanied by an old identification card.
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Stone Age Neolithic and Later Flint Tool Group
6th millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £78
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Ex London, UK, collection, 1970s onwards. -
Stone Age British Mesolithic Tranchet Adze
3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Flint tranchet adze or 'Thames pick', biconvex in section with square ends. 93 grams, 11.1 cm
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Hand Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Substantial flake with broad butt, small portion of cortex to the butt with inked legend '1731 / TWYDALL'. 413 grams, 12.5 cm
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.
