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LOT 1588
French Stone Age Fontmaure Jasper Neanderthal Knapped Flint Scraper
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
3 in. (110 grams, 76 mm).
Cordate in plan with cortex to the butt, notched cutting edge; old label 'Fontmaure, 86 Vellechs'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the well-regarded site of Fontmaure, Vaucluse department, France.
Acquired in the 1970s-1990s.
From the collections of the famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023).
From a private collection.
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LOT 1588
French Stone Age Fontmaure Jasper Neanderthal Knapped Flint Scraper
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Early Human Bone Implements
Upper Palaeolithic-Bronze Age Period, circa 40,000-3,000 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Comprising three bone implements, one fragmentary and joined by a metal pin. 112 grams total, 10.3-13.9 cm
From France. Private collection, UK. -
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Beaker Dagger
Beaker Period, 4700-3700 B.P.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Lentoid body with finely knapped edges, inked collector's note 'Suffolk. 86' to one side; very rare. 67 grams, 13.7 cm
Found Suffolk, UK, 1986(?). From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s. -
Farnham Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped in profile with broad cutting edge and narrow butt; old inked legend '9 OCS' and others mostly effaced. 241 grams, 12.6 cm
Found during the original official excavations in the Farnham area, Surrey, UK, which were conducted by Harold Faulker (1875-1963), and William Francis Rankine (c.1877-1962), who were instrumental with 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.
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.
