Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
14th July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/160
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    SY 6, BR ‘Twenty-four others. Five distinct types, same provenance ma (scad lot orl 24 976 A PartTiaLLy GRouND Crt, AND A POLISHED AND GROUND Dirro. From the Cissbury Neolithic factory; both rare. Also a Neolithic fabricator; and fourteen flint implements. All from the same source 17 377 Four large flint implements, from Grime’s Graves Neolithic factory ; also seventeen Hampshire Neoliths, from the Winchester district 21 378 Nine bone Neolithic implements, from the bed of the Thames; five flint ditto, from Grime’s Graves; and six flint ditto, from Weeting, near Brandon 20 pani near Brandon; another example (marked B), from a /, | } barrow at Brandon; and five flint-flakes, from Grime’s \ Sh } Graves 1D G 80° Thirty miscellaneous Neoliths, comprising celts, fabricators, knife-flakes, &c. Many from Grime’s Graves 30 381 A primitive lamp, in chalk, used by the Neolithic fint- miners at Grime’s Graves, near Weeting; very rare. Also four long flint-flakes, from the same source ; and a thirty-six representative examples of knife-flakes, from } \ _ other Neolithic sites AL ys 4 \ vi ‘ A <a & var C L- 382) Three flint-flakes, and a large scraper, from Grime’s Graves; a also thirty-one Neolithic knife-flakes ; and twelve horse- shoe shaped flint scrapers. All found in England 47 383 Four large stone mauls, used for crushing metal ore, and usually found in the neighbourhood of ancient copper mines ; also two net-sinkers, of stone, from Windermere «6 384 Five perforated axe-hammers, of stone, from Whitby, Red- worth, and other British sites. An important series 9 385 Six other perforated axe-hammers, in stone. All found in { gl) - England 6. OL 386) A series of fifty-eight duck’s-bill-shaped scrapers, of flint, ee mostly from the Yorkshire Wolds; also thirteen miscel- laneous Neolithic scrapers 71 “A geries of thirty-five horseshoe-shaped scrapers, of flint. Mostly from the Yorkshire Wolds 30. We 4 i + artes) =
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