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LOT 1637
Treen Stone Age Polished Grinding Tool
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
3 in. (218 grams, 76 mm).
Round-section pestle with polished butt; inked legend 'Treen / Penwith / Sam Angoye'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Treen, Penwith, UK.
From the collection of Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham; who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew.
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French Stone Age Mousterian Knapped Flint Knife Scraper
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000-60,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Piriform in plam with cortex to the reverse; rounded butt and broad point; old inked legend '16 St Front'. 66.9 grams, 76 mm
From St Front, Périgueux, Dordogne, France. Acquired in the 1970s-1990s. From the collections of the famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023). From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. -
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-6th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 90 grams total, 23-38 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
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. -
Possible Stone Age Flint Core Group
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 700,000-300,000 B.P. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising possibly one core, the other natural, one with inked collection number '4197/1/28' and the other with 'SNC. W.G.S. 882' and '4487/1/28'. 233 grams total, 62-81 mm
Previously in several old collections, having been annotated with two different accession numbers. Acquired from an Oxfordshire, UK, auction house. From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector.
