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LOT 1666
Stone Age Long Trapezoidal Steep-Sided Flint Scraper
MESOLITHIC-EARLY NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9000-5000 B.P.
2 in. (33.2 grams, 51 mm).
Knapped in mottled grey flint with old collector's number to verso: '106' [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Thames Valley in the 19th century.
From an antiquarian Palaeolithic study collection, Shropshire, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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LOT 1666
Stone Age Long Trapezoidal Steep-Sided Flint Scraper
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Stone Age 'Arun' Flint Scraper
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Triangular with narrow butt, inked label 'N12-108'. 128 grams, 76 mm
Found Arun, Littlehampton, Sussex, UK, before 1979. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Flint Single-Faced Knife Group
Mesolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Three knapped knife blades, one in dark grey flint with some cortex, two pale brown. 22.05 grams total, 43-61 mm
Found Thames Valley in the 19th century. From an antiquarian Palaeolithic study collection, Shropshire, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Flint Sickle Knife
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
A knapped bifacial sickle knife, chipped at one end; inked inscription to the reverse: 'Fakenham, Norfolk'. 69 grams, 97 mm
Found near Fakenham, Norfolk, UK. Ex collection of P James, South England. Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
