Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:: 14th July 1924

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/160

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

418/456 page 38

$Third Day’s Sale. On WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1924. AT ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY. NEOLITHIC AGE—ENGLAND. PLINT, STONE AND BONE IMPLEMENTS. - ug x SS a << 3hO/ A series of fourteen rude hammer-stones, of flint, approxi- “~~! mately spherical; also fifteen others, chiefly quartzite. Neolithic period, found in England, (A few of these examples may be Paleoliths) 29 [The following six lots consist of flint implements dis- covered during the exploration of the Neolithic flint mines at Cissbury Camp, near Worthing, Sussex. The roughness of the tools and the primitive type of many forms warrant the belief that they belong to the earlier part of the Neolithic period- Ground or polished specimens from this source are extremely rare, though there are two in the present collection (vide lot 376). The shafts sunk by the early flint miners vary from 10 to 40 feet, and were connected by galleries, some of which are 30 feet long] A) \ Seventeen implements, from Cissbury Neolithic factory, near Worthing, unground Ly Pd > Aye B72 Nineteen similar instruments, mostly larger and finer i specimens than the foregoing. Cissbury Neolithic factory 19 7$/- 373 Twenty-five others, comprising five distinct types of imple- an | ment. Same provenance as lot 371 ; 95 ~ eS Lphus ¥ ty. ant. bs en essa RRA MATIN ETE of-314 Twenty-two others, including some particularly fineexamples = | of unground celts. Same provenance as lot 371 99. ™“) 5 aa € Sea ee AN EE$

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