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LOT 0268
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
7 1/2 in. (572 grams,19 cm).
Piriform body in cream-coloured flint, with remains of an old handwritten label on one side. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Test Road, Huzbourough Copse, Hampshire, UK, August 1965.
From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s.
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LOT 0268
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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Opening Bid: £5
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Treen Stone Age Polished Grinding Tool
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Round-section pestle with polished butt; inked legend 'Treen / Penwith / Sam Angoye'. 218 grams, 76 mm
Found Treen, Penwith, 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. Neolithic people are known to have engaged in flint mining. Polished axes and leaf forms, arrowheads and knives, or possibly lance heads, are characteristic of Neolithic flint work.
