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LOT 1730
Stone Age Humid Phase Flint Tool Collection
MESOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 12,000-4,000 B.P.
1 1/2 - 4 3/4 in. (670 grams total, 3.8-12.1 cm).
Mixed group of cleavers, scapers and other tools with worked edges. [20, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound North Africa.
From a collection formed during the 1970s-1980s and acquired on the British art market.
By descent to the current owner in 1988.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
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 British Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
With small area of cortex to the butt; an old inked inscription: '10.46.1036.A Twydall'. 93 grams, 74 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. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Cleaver
Lower Palaeolithic, European Acheulean, circa 400,000-300,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £632
Plano-convex in section and ovate in profile with much cortex to the butt; inked findspot data 'Hachereau / 17 - Saintes / Métairie de Madame' and paper labels '32', 'N 13334'. 322 grams, 12.4 cm ( 519 grams total, 15.6 cm including stand)
Ex Hervé Bouraly, Saint Ouen, France, between 1965-1990. Inscription on object: 'Hachereau / 17 - Saintes / Métairie de Madame'. Europe, France, Saintes, lieu-dit Métairie de Madame. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Tool Group
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Including a sidescraper and a plano-convex slug knife, with inked legend 'N8-80'; '39', 'N12-105', '1972'; '40', 'N12-106', '1972'. 22.9 grams total, 24-58 mm
N105 & 106 acquired from Martin Green in 1972. N.80 acquired from M.Younge and found in the Feltwell area of Norfolk, 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.
