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LOT 1235
Stone Age Neolithic Flint Implement Collection
CIRCA 6TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 5/8 - 3 in. (260 grams total, 42-78 mm).
Mainly comprising scrapers, blades and cores; some with inked finder/collector notes to one face. [12, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an old family property, acquired before 1980.
Ex the Bavarian private collection of K.F.
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Stone Age British Neolithic Flint Blade and Core Group
6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Composed of one core and three graduated blades, some with re-touching; one blade with pencilled collector's identification notes reading '2004 [S?]tutton Shore Suffolk'. 112 grams total, 47-78 mm
Found near Colchester, Essex, and Suffolk, 1990s. Property of an Essex gentleman. -
Stone Age Neolithic Knapped Flint Axe
Circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Of roughly elliptical form with a shallow triangular cross section and slightly convex cutting edge with rounded butt. 411 grams, 13.8 cm
Acquired 1970-1990. Ex collection of a deceased gentleman by descent to his family. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Likely a crude cutting and scraping implement; bearing an inked identification '1313 / 1.TWYDALL' to one face. 183 grams, 10 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.
