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LOT 1723
Stone Age Knapped Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
1 1/8 - 1 3/4 in. (45 grams total, 28-46 mm).
Deltoid, leaf-shaped and barbed types each in a collector's archive box with label. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Tillemsi, Mali, West Africa.
Acquired Oxford show, UK, July 2010.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N159a-c; 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.
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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 Flint Axehead Fragment
Mesolithic Period, 14,000-8,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Lozengiform in section with chipped butt, dressed cutting edge; old collection number '113 MH' and 'S.Hants' to reverse. 135 grams, 85 mm
Found South Hampshire, UK, in 1974. Acquired from Martin Greens, UK, in 1972. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.M1; 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. -
Large Stone Age Pregnant Mother Goddess Idol
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.P. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £2,600
Modelled in the round as a figure of a pregnant woman sitting upright with emphasised breast and stomach; mounted on a custom-made stand. 1.47 kg total, 16 cm including stand
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12334-224207. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Most scholars consider these as symbols of the fertility cult and as evidence of the existence of a matriarchal society as a form of organisation of the earliest human society. The people of the Stone Age may have considered figures such as this to represent women and mothers with their life-giving powers, or as depictions of the ancestors.
