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Lot 119

A collection of Palaeolithic and Neolithic axes and flint tools
together with a large grey leaf-shaped grey flint blade,
22

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A collection of Palaeolithic and Neolithic axes and flint tools
Lower Palaeolithic-Neolithic, circa 2000 B.C. and earlier
Including a brown flint pointed hand axe, Acheulean, Lower Palaeolithic, marked in black ink: 'Broad Valley Essex', 10.5cm; two caramel brown flint hand axes, one with rounded tip, 12cm the other with a pronounced point 14cm; a hand axe of patinated white flint, with collection label, 'Devenis 1924'; four other flaked tools; an Egyptian flint spear head, marked in ink: 'From Amran...Abydos...Chauncey March July 1898'; seven small tanged and leaf shaped arrowheads, Neolithic; and two small polished axe heads, together with a large grey leaf-shaped grey flint blade, inscribed in black ink: 'Dacota 1888', 16cm, and three small flint arrowheads from Huaneme Ranch, Ventura County, California (22)

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Provenance:
Private collection, UK.
Some of the Acheulian implements collected by D.E. Smith prior to 1956.

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