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LOT 1454
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
3 1/4 in. (177 grams, 82 mm).
Knapped burin with cortex to rounded butt; with an old inked inscription: '8.HC.1021.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.
The Twydall finds are discussed in Beresford, F.R., Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection, in Lithics, Vol.39, 2021.
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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Knife
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Triangular-section blade; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS.1252.A / Twydall'. 46 grams, 91 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 'Spiennes' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rectangular in plan with thin butt, made from a blade core. 343 grams, 10.5 cm
Found 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. -
Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Including one with angled cutting edge, one with gouged blade, and other types. 461 grams total, 69-98 mm
Found North Africa. Ex Ian Richardson collection, Sunderland, UK. 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.
