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LOT 1471
Stone Age Microlith and Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 - 1 1/2 in. (10.4 grams total, 16-39 mm).
Including barbed and tanged arrowheads, crescent scrapers and other items. [10, 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.
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Stone Age Polished Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
In grey-coloured flint, bifacially knapped and polished with convex cutting edge, sturdy tapering profile with rounded sides and narrow butt; old inked collector's reference 'OMT' to edge. 410 grams, 17 cm
Ex J.Shaul collection, 2000s. -
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Attractive Stone Age 'Dordogne' Orange-Brown Chalcedony Bifacially Worked Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 240,000- 38,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Ovate cleaver with small portion of cortex to the butt. 332 grams, 12 cm
Found Dordogne, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Large Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Scraper Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Rounded in form with large band of cortex remaining, old inked inscription '6.K.1069.C / TWYDALL'. 380 grams, 11 cm
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.
