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LOT 1451
Stone Age Knapped Hand Axe Group
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000-200,000 B.P.
4 3/4 - 5 1/4 in. (290 grams total, 12-13.5 cm).
Comprising: one triangular in section with broad butt and narrow edge; one biconvex in section with broad curved edge. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.21, for type.
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Neolithic Period, circa 7th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
With rounded cutting edge and almost-circular shank, thin pointed butt. 3.17 grams, 39 cm
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Neolithic Period, 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising discoid, lozengiform and triangular scrapers, flint nodule with inked 'Spionnos' inscription, and other items, some mounted on glazed ceramic tile bases. 1.06 kg total, 3.6-12 cm
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Rounded scraper with cortex to the reverse; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS.1230.C / Twydall'. 110 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.
