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LOT 1973
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Bifacial Knife from Farnham
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 YEARS B.P.
1 1/2 in. (17.6 grams, 40.5 mm).
Ovate in plan with a small patch of cortex forming a thumb-pad. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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 to a gentleman in Kent.
The collection was then sold again in the 2020’s via a UK auction house.
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LOT 1973
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Bifacial Knife from Farnham
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
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Very Large British Museum Recorded Palaeolithic Handaxe from the Happisburgh Area
Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,560
Handaxe of Wymer's type D, slightly buff patinated rolled flint. 773 grams, 16.1 cm
Found by Mr P. Macro in the Parish of Walcott (via GPS location), which is directly next to the Parish of Happisburgh, where this stretch of beach adjoins. The discovery was made in 2019 after the ‘Beast from the East’ storm, which stripped the beach of the sand and helped to erode the Palaeolithic artefacts from the ancient Thames river bed. During the time the artefacts were dropped, the Thames ran through North Norfolk and what is now Happisburgh before it was pushed down to its current position in London via the Ice Age glacial melts. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-8D526A.
The site of Happisburgh in Norfolk has helped to push the history of inhabitation of the British Isles back by 200,000, making it a site of special importance. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Chopping Tool
Palaeolithic Period, circa 250,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
D-shaped in profile, cleaver with thick rear edge. 271 grams, 93 mm
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Stone Age Lozenge-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface lozenge-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 101 grams total, 22-43 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.
