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LOT 1217
Stone Age Implement Group
CIRCA 4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 - 3 in. (139 grams total, 50-76 mm).
Comprising implements of various types, including a fossiliferous flake, blade, possible scraper and points; Sahara region; box with label reading 'various Aterian tools, Sahara Desert'. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceThe Jeffrey Mulroy collection of flint artefacts.
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Stone Age Aterian Tanged Arrowhead Group
Circa 85,000-40,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising 20 transverse style arrowheads. 220 grams total, 31-55 mm
From Grotte des Pigeons in Taforalt, Morocco, North Africa. Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Likely a crude cutting and scraping implement; bearing an inked identification '1313 / 1.TWYDALL' to one face. 183 grams, 10 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. -
Stone Age British Neolithic Polished Flint Axe
Circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
With slightly convex cutting edge tapering with squared sides to a near square butt which shows evidence of possible use as a strike-a-light. 292 grams, 13 cm
Found UK. UK collection since the 1990s.
