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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 'Bergerac' Knapped Ovate Flint Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
With a rounded butt. 396 grams, 12 cm
From Bergerac, France. From a Norfolk, UK, collection. Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman. -
Stone Age 'St Jacques' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
With a narrow rounded but and elongated body. 475 grams, 16 cm
From St Jacques, France. Ex M Allias collection, 1910s. From a Norfolk, UK, collection. Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman. -
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.
