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LOT 1499
Stone Age Polished Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/2 - 2 3/4 in. (224 grams total, 39-70 mm).
Group of four trapezoidal axeheads, each with a gently curved cutting edge. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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Stone Age Microlith and Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Including barbed and tanged arrowheads, crescent scrapers and other items. 10.4 grams total, 16-39 mm
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. -
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Stone Age 'Trossencourt' Grey Knapped Flint Handaxe
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
With cortex to the tip and flaked butt, old inked inscription 'Troussencourt'. 258 grams, 12.5 cm
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Large Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Scraper Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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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.
