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LOT 1113
Stone Age Knapped Flint Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
3/4 - 1 3/4 in. (120 grams total, 21-46 mm).
A group of fifty knapped flint arrowheads. [50, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, acquired in the 2000s.
Property of an English gentleman.
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Stone Age Twydall Retouched Flint Implement
Lower Paleolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A retouched Twydall flint implement, bearing handwritten collector's inventory id. to the body '[ ]B. 1125 C. Twydall'. 149 grams, 70 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. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Retouched Implement
Lower Paleolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
A retouched Twydall flint implement bearing a handwritten collector's id. to the body '1433 Twydall'. 364 grams, 94 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. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
A diorite axe-hammer, with rounded butt chamfered at the edge and with convex sides, sub-rectangular in section, dark green fine-grained stone. 635 grams, 10 cm
Acquired 1971-1972. From the collection of the vendor's father. Property of a London, UK, collector.
During Neolithic period, while objects for everyday use, such as knife blades, arrows and lance tips were often only knapped - albeit with very fine retouching - and people soon learnt how to polish selected tools and equipment with sand for a smooth surface. Rotating tubular bone and sand made it possible to fit axes and hammers with a pierced 'eye' for the handle. This eye socket is the preliminary stage of the Bronze Age socket.
