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LOT 2945
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Scrapers and Blades from Dialstone
MESOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 12,000-6,000 B.P.
1 1/2 - 2 1/4 in. (52 grams total, 37-56 mm).
Comprising six implements, five with an inked collector's note. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Dialstone, Cumbria, UK.
From the collection of Mr G.A.
From a private collection.
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LOT 2945
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Scrapers and Blades from Dialstone
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Yonne French Stone Age Knapped Flint Adze
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped in plan and biconvex in section. 137 grams, 12.1 cm
From Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France. From a large French collection built up in the early 1900s. From a private collection. -
Farnham Stone Age Knapped Flint Scraper
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Ovate in plan and biconvex in section with scooped forward edge. 34.6 grams, 45 mm
Found during the original official excavations in the Farnham area, Surrey, UK, which were conducted by Harold Falkner (1875-1963) and William Francis Rankine (c.1877-1962), who were instrumental in the excavation works and pit dwellings at sites including Six Bells, Frensham, Tilford, Thursley and Bagshot, and Waverley, amongst others, at and near Farnham in the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the material is now in the prestigious Farnham museum. The present part of the collection having been gifted to their good friend and 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. -
Somme Valley French Stone Age Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, Acheulean, circa 650,000-350,000 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Bids: 6 | Current Bid: £220
Piriform in plan and biconvex in section with broad butt. 184 grams, 10.2 cm
Found in the Somme Valley, France, December 1917. From the collection of an Australian collector before being brought back to the UK. Acquired on the UK art market in the 2020s. From a private collection.
Attributed to Homo Heidelbergesis. After the Battle of the Somme during WW1, the area around the Somme became a quieter location where soldiers recuperated. There are reports that many Stone Age artefacts were found during this time while soldiers were not on the front line. With the landscape being turned over considerably and trenches being hand-dug, this is not surprising.
