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LOT 1502
Stone Age Pecked Hammerstone
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 in. (407 grams, 78 mm).
Drum-shaped in profile and slightly tapering, rounded percussion face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Simmons Gallery, 1990s.
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Group of Stone Age Flint Tools, Scrapers, Blades and Cores
Mesolithic Period, circa 9000-3450 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
A mixed group of twenty-one worked blades and other flint tools. 390 grams total, 22-55 mm
Found Portland Bill, Dorset, UK, 1970s. Ex Hampshire, UK, collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Of irregular shape, some cortex showing to the upper face; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS 1279.C Twydall'. 42 grams, 57 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 'Cissbury Vineyard' Flaked Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4300-2300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
With narrow butt and rounded cutting edge, old inked legend 'Cissbury Vineyard 7/4/73'. 152 grams, 12.3 cm
Found Cissbury Vineyard, Sussex, UK, 1st April 1973. Ex an important Cambridgeshire collection by descent. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
