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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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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 Flint Implement Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising a group of mixed stone implements, mostly in flint or chert and knapped, including blades, scrapers and points; some broken and probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 608 grams total, 37-98 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Stone Age Tenerian Culture Celt Axe
Neolithic Period, 7500-5300 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Pecked and ground with a curved cutting edge and a narrow rounded butt. 285 grams, 11.1 cm
From the Tenera Region, South Central Sahara. From a private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.
