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LOT 1240
Stone Age Tenerian Culture Flint Tool Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 7500-5300 B.P.
1 3/4 - 3 1/4 in. (300 grams total, 46-83 mm).
Comprising twenty tools, including knives, scrapers and cores. [20, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Tenera Region, of South Central Sahara.
From a private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.
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Superb Stone Age French Cream Flint Amygdaloid Handaxe
Mousterian Period, circa 300,00-100,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Inscribed in black ink to the reverse: 'PLAZAC / DORDOGNE'. 233 grams, 11 cm
Found Plazac, Dordogne, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Cleaver Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Formed on a large flake with one edge trimmed; with inked collection number: '1342 / I.TWYDALL'. 154 grams, 93 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 Implement Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising thirty flint blades and other implements. 30 grams total, 23-70 mm
From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
