Adrar Sirlet African Stone Age Knapped Very Long Knife

Triangular in plan with long cutting edges; with an old label reading 'S9.27'. 2.58 grams, 24.48 mm



Found El Golea, Algeria. Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s.

Biconvex in section with parallel edges and tapering ends. 53 grams, 17 cm



From an old Netherlands collection. Ex British private collection. From the private collection of a S.W. London, UK, gentleman.

Lntoid in section with narrow butt and broad curved edge; pencilled 'Yieusley' and other notations. 435 grams, 15 cm



Found Yieusley, Hillingdon, London, 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.

Farnham district is one of the most interesting prehistoric regions in England, and has been visited by a succession of prehistoric peoples from Palaeolithic times onwards. Along the southern slope of the Farnham valley are three gravel terraces, which are famous prehistorically and have yielded large quantities of flint implements and bones of prehistoric animals, notably the mammoth. In prehistoric times, the chalk deposits played an important role in attracting settlers, as they contained rich layers of flint nodules used to make implements. The Farnham Gravels have been an abundant source of Palaeolithic finds, most prominent being hand axes. The axes differ in type, and each type is associated with a cultural phase of the Palaeolithic period. Types similar to these are found in similar deposits in the Somme valley and in many English valley gravels. Flint mining was also carried out by the Neolithic folk. Polished axes and leaf forms, arrowheads and knives, or possibly lance heads, are characteristic of the Neolithic flint work.