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LOT 1602
Stone Age Knapped Tanged Point Collection
ATERIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 80,000-40,000 B.P.
1 1/2 - 2 1/8 in. (51 grams total, 37-53 mm).
Spade-shaped, triangular and other types, each with a tang. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco, North Africa.
Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
Palaeolithic-Neolithic Period, circa 200,000-6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Including scrapers and other tools, and debutage. 285 grams, 1.7-10.7 cm
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s. -
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. -
Stone Age Knapped Scraper Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £14
Group of knapped scrapers, some with inked accession number. 72 grams total, 45-55 mm
Found Department Indre et Loire, Epargne, Grand Pressigny, South West France. Collected in the 1930s. Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collector. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
