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LOT 1503
British Stone Age Flint Knife from Fulbrook
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
3 1/2 in. (40 grams, 88 mm).
With a thick facetted butt and a narrow scooped blade, with inked legend 'Near Fulbrook 1900'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound near Fulbrook, Maidstone, Kent, in 1900.
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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