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LOT 1104
Stone Age Twydall Retouched Flint Implement
LOWER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
2 3/4 in. (149 grams, 70 mm).
A retouched Twydall flint implement, bearing handwritten collector's inventory id. to the body '[ ]B. 1125 C. 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.
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Stone Age Upnor Clactonian Flint Cleaver
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
An Upnor Clactonian flint cleaver, bearing collector's handwritten inventory information to one face 'Upnor 2B'. 402 grams, 93 mm
Found Upnor, 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. -
Stone Age Acheulian Cleaver Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, before 20,0000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
A large Acheulian cleaver-shaped hand axe with a sharp cleaver point on the distal end and a worked rounded base; continuous retouching to the edges. 463 grams, 14.1 cm
Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria. From an old Hamburg, Germany collection. -
Stone Age Aterian Tanged Arrowheads
Circa 85,000-40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A group of 20 tanged stone transverse style arrowheads. 250 grams total, 27-55 mm
From Grotte des Pigeons in Taforalt, Morocco, North Africa. Ex Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
The tang would have been inserted into a split handle or shaft material, like wood or bone, and then bound in position with cord, or with a binding agent which would have harden to form a permanent bond. The Aterian is the name given to a distinctive stone tool industry made by anatomically modern humans between about 80,000 and 40,000 years ago. The tools are found on sites in northern Africa between the Atlantic coast to the Kharga Oasis and the western edge of the Nile River Basin. The manufacturing process for these tools is derived from the earlier "Mousterian" methods for working stone, using prepared and shaped cores from which were struck off large flakes which were then often unifacially trimmed into the desired tool shapes. They continued with the same basic stone working processes, but with a major conceptual difference. The "Aterian" style tools are the first to have clearly been designed and manufactured to be mounted on handles, with the projectile points and the scrapers having distinctive prepared "tangs" at the base of the tool or projectile point.
