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LOT 1559
British Stone Age Crescent Flint Scraper from Farnham
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
2 1/8 in. (49 grams, 54 mm).
D-shaped with broad cutting edge, cortex to the rear. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Farnham, Kent, in 1901.
From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent.
After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction.
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