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LOT 1739
Stone Age Twydall Flake
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
2 3/4 in. (31 grams, 69 mm).
With catalogue description '1298 struck flake blade point (snipped)'; inked collector's legend '2.PB. 1298.A/Twydall'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Collection of Stone Age Tools with Animal Teeth
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Possibly from organised archaeology digs: five flint scrapers marked 'BHM' and 'BHS' with dates in the 1980s; two boar tusks marked 'BHM' with dates in the 1980s; quantity of mammal teeth, some marked 'BHM' or 'BHS' 224 grams total, 35-77 mm
Probably found in the 1980s. From an old large English collection from Lincolnshire. Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
British Stone Age Flint Scraper Group
Circa 4th-3rd millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Both ovate in profile with broad butt; one marked 'BA1-3', 'M.G.Dorset' and the other 'BA1-2' '260'. 55 grams total, 43-52 mm
Found Verwood area, N.E. Dorset, UK. Acquired from Martin Green in 1974. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection nos.BA1-2, 1-3; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 113 grams total, 23-41 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
