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LOT 0270
British Stone Age 'Happisburgh' Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 600,000-250,000 B.P.
3 1/2 in. (4 1/2 in.) (175 grams, 90 mm (213 grams total, 11.3 cm including stand)).
Cordate in profile with worked cutting edge; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceDiscovered by P Macro at Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, in 2019.
FootnotesThe site of Happisburgh in Norfolk has helped to push the history of inhabitation of the British Isles back by 200,000 years, making it a site of special importance.
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LOT 0270
British Stone Age 'Happisburgh' Flint Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
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Stone Age Votive Pottery Offering Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6500-6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising a waisted bowl, bird-head and pierced column. 157 grams total, 42-50 mm
Acquired prior to 1920. From an old Dutch collection. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
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Stone Age Neanderthal Period Cave Bear Tooth Pendant
2.5 million-10,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
A bear's fang drilled for suspension for use as a pendant. 103 grams, 11.7 cm
From the private family collection of a lady, UK; acquired in Germany mid 20th century. -
Large Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface barbed and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 50 grams total, 32-50 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
