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LOT 1479
Stone Age Knapped Axehead Group
MESOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 10,000-4000 B.P.
4 - 5 in. (287 grams total, 10.2-12.7 cm).
Comprising: teardrop-shaped burin with polished faces; triangular-section blade with rounded ends. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenancePreviously acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
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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. -
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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 Twydall Knapped Flint Knife
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
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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.
