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LOT 1940
British Stone Age Mousterian Knapped Flint Ovate Bifacial Handaxe from Farnham Made by Neanderthal Man
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
3 1/4 in. (148 grams, 83 mm).
Ovate in plan with pointed butt and curved cutting edge. [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.
Artefacts from this period in Great Britain are not common.
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LOT 1940
British Stone Age Mousterian Knapped Flint Ovate Bifacial Handaxe from Farnham Made by Neanderthal Man
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
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African Stone Age Homo Erectus Knapped Red Stone Handaxe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 1,000,000-500,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Piriform in plan and lentoid in section with eccentric round butt. 467 grams, 15.5 cm.
From Goezzam, Sahara. Ex old German collection formed in the 1970s. Purchased on the European art market. -
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Stone Age Tenerian Saharan Knapped Flint Blade Core
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rectangular in plan and wedge-shaped in section, with fluted surface showing removal of worked flakes. 173 grams, 83.77 mm
Ex old German collection formed in the 1970s. Acquired on the European art market. -
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.
