Code: 2730
Description: A good-sized triangular pale brown quartzite arrowhead with a contracting stem. A nice example with a dull patina, found Caldera, Atacama Region, northern Chile.
Size: 60 mm/2.3 ins. in length
Culture: South America
Date: Prehistoric
Provenance: Ex F.S. Clark Collection, Woking, Surrey.
Background: Fred Sydney Clark (1923-2016) ran the Old Curiosity Shoppe, The Quadrant, Onslow Street, Guildford, Surrey, in the 1970’s-1980’s selling a range of collectables. A passionate collector and field-walker, he built up a fine collection of antiquities, notable for British prehistoric items, a significant number of which he obtained through trade with Dr. H.A. Fawcett. Like Fawcett, he was meticulous in documenting his collection, even the most humble tools were catalogued and fully labelled with locality, accession number and his characteristic monogram.
