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LOT 1505
Stone Age 'Spiennes' Knapped Flint Handaxe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 3000-2000 B.C.
4 1/8 in. (343 grams, 10.5 cm).
Rectangular in plan with thin butt, made from a blade core. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Spiennes, Belgium.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Irregular-shaped scraper with some cortex remaining; marked '2.S5.1244.A / Twydall'. 102 grams, 71 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 Polished Stone Animal Idol Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £3,380
Each with stub limbs and rounded profile; each mounted on a custom-made display stand. 2.01 kg total, 8.4-15.5 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.
The sculptures represent farm animals in the Neolithic period, in this case two bovines and a dove. Animal figurines seem to be a recurrent feature in the earlier Neolithic settlements, in the Balkans and in the Levant. It is significant that in the Neolithic Mediterranean, the animals depicted seem to be domesticated, thus suggesting that its reference points were within the confines of the community. -
Stone Age Polished Pendant
Circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Triangular in profile with suspension hole to the apex; mounted on a custom-made stand with collector's label 'Neolithic Pendant Sahara 5000 B.C.'. 68 grams total including stand, 38 mm
Found Sahara, North Africa. 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.
