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LOT 1260
Stone Age Pecked and Ground Axeheads and Fragment Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 1/2 - 4 1/2 in. (1.14 kg total, 6.4-11.4 cm).
Comprising mostly fragments of pecked and ground stone axes, with a knapped thin-bladed and polished edge type. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Stone Age Knife Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising thirty flint knives. 88 grams total, 31-57 mm
From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
An early hand axe formed on a thick, keeled flake, trimmed to edges; with inked collection number: 'SN.1170.A / 2.TWYDALL'. 276 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. -
Stone Age Oldowan Pebble Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 2.6-1.7 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,210
Basalt or similar natural stone pebble with crudely knapped cutting or chopping edge; with inked KADA / Gona / Athiopien' findspot note and numbered '55'; with custom-made display stand. 340 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand
Found near Kada Gona, Ethiopia in the 1960s. Subsequently Stark collection, Germany. Later with the Celtic and Prehistoric Museum, Dingle, Country Kerry, Republic of Ireland.
The Oldowan implements, mostly comprising roughly knapped or chipped stone pebbles that provide crude cutting edges, are some of the most ancient artefacts made by the earliest recognised hominids, typified by the discoveries at Oldovan Gorge in Africa, found there by the Leakey family.
