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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 Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Triangular scraper; with an old inked inscription: '4.HS.1082.A / Twydall'. 102 grams, 83 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. -
Stone Age Cave Drawing of a Quadruped
Neolithic Period, 3rd-2nd millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £1,950
Dressed stone panel with incised image of a horned animal in profile; mounted on a custom-made stand. 7.85 kg total, 35 cm including stand
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 French Grand-Pressigny 'Prismatic Core' Knapped Flint Core
Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Carefully knapped with the scars where several large flakes were struck off, to form a beautifully prepared prismatic core which differs in the way it was produced to a more typical livre-de-beurre. 296 grams, 10 cm
Found France. 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.
