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LOT 1494
Stone Age Neolithic and Later Flint Tool Group
6TH MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
1 - 4 in. (351 grams total, 2.4-10 cm).
Mixed group including scrapers and other items; offered with three large and three small reproduction arrowheads. [12, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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Stone Age 'Central France' Chestnut-Brown Knapped Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 70,000-60,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Cordate in plan with finely worked edges. 240 grams, 12.2 cm
Found in Central France. From an old French collection formed in the early 1900s. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector. -
Large Stone Age Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
With partly rounded butt and convex convergent sides, straight vertical cutting edge and central mounting socket. 1.8 kg, 23 cm
From 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. -
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Triangular burin; with an old inked inscription: '2.PB.1282.C / Twydall'. 48 grams, 70 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.
