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LOT 0342
'The Greenstead Green' Stone Age Polished Brown Patinated Flint Axehead
CIRCA 4000-2350 B.C.
5 3/4 in. (534 grams, 14.8 cm).
Sub-oval in plan, tapering towards the square butt, crescentic blade with the pointed edge extending around the entire object.
ProvenanceFound whilst fieldwalking in Greenstead Green, Braintree, Essex, UK, on Sunday 18 September 2022.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.ESS-B342ED.
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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LOT 0342
'The Greenstead Green' Stone Age Polished Brown Patinated Flint Axehead
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
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Large Stone Age Clactonian Twydall Heavy Flint Cleaver on Flake
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
With cortex to base and inked legend '8 ss 1038.C Twydall'. 871 grams, 15 cm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. 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 and collections list. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Obsidian Knife Core
5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Triangular in section with curved beak, facetting to the flanks. 527 grams, 14.7 cm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface triangular barded and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 45 grams total, 22-36 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.
