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LOT 1493
Stone Age Knapped Diamond-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 - 1 3/8 in. (42 grams total, 23-36 mm).
Mainly with pointed butt, flat in section. [25, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound North Africa.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
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Extremely Rare Stone Age 'Happisburgh' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 600,000-450,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £624
A thick, hard hammer struck primary flake, the dorsal face steeply retouched on one side to form a single, long edge scraper or cutting edge; perhaps a unifacial segmental chopper of Type L ‘handaxe’' the extant cortex thin and weathered, now patchy grey in colour. 133 grams, 88 mm
Found Happisburgh, North Norfolk, UK, by John Craven on Saturday 14th July 2018. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-09F375.
A serious collector's piece from the site of the oldest known stone tools in the UK and North West Europe. -
'The General Sir George Cockburn' Stone Age Classic British Teardrop-Shaped Knapped Flint Handaxe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
With broad rounded butt, D-shaped in section, some cortex in place; old inked '3' beneath a natural cavity with cortex. 278 grams, 12 cm
Probably from the collection of General Sir George Cockburn (1763-1947), Shanganagh Castle, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, sold at auction between 1935-1939. -
Stone Age Polished Greenstone Axehead
Neolithic Period, 4,000-3,500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £585
Of teardrop shape in polished greenstone with broad curving cutting edge, lentoid-section body and narrow rounded butt. 131 grams, 95 mm
Found Grimsby, UK, in 2014. From an East Anglian private collection. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) record report slip entry no.5266.
