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LOT 1488
Stone Age Knapped Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 1 1/2 in. (129 grams total, 24-38 mm).
Mainly flat in section with rounded butts. [50, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound North Africa.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
See Greenwell, David, F., Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.
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Knapped burin with cortex to rounded butt; with an old inked inscription: '8.HC.1021.A /Twydall'. 177 grams, 82 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 Neolithic and Later Flint Tool Group
6th millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Stone Age 'Colchester' Part Polished Axe Head
Neolithic Period, circa 2500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Long and slender blade, lentoid in section with partly polished finish; old collector's label 'Colchester 1974'. 306 grams, 18.8 cm
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