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LOT 1506
Stone Age Knapped Flint Scraper and Other Tool Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5500-4500 B.P.
1 5/8 - 2 1/2 in. (143 grams total, 40-62 mm).
Mainly ovate in plan, one with inked legend 'Countess A[...]dow, BDF Feb '91'. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Bagthorpe, Norfolk, UK, in the 1920s and earlier(?).
Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 1506
Stone Age Knapped Flint Scraper and Other Tool Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Neanderthal Knapped Quartzite Scraper Group
Mousterian Period, circa 80,000-40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Including one triangular-section leaf-shape example and other types. 330 grams total, 5.9-10.6 cm
Found Le Grand Pressigny, Touraine, France. From an old French collection. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Scraper Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Including chevron, ovate, triangular and other types. 55 grams total, 30-47 mm
Found near Fakenham, Norfolk, UK. From an old Norfolk collection formed during the 1960s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Large Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface barbed and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 50 grams total, 32-50 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
