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LOT 1700
French Stone Age Solutrean Knapped Flint Blade Group - Ex Sir Arthur Evans
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 22,000-17,000 B.P.
1 7/8 - 2 in. (18.3 grams total, 48-52 mm).
Comprising two blades made from bluish-white flint, and one made of dark blue-grey flint. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound at Fourneau du Diable, Bourdielles Dordogne, an important Upper Palaeolithic prehistoric rock shelter.
Ex Sir Arthur John Evans (1851–1941), British archaeologist and son of Sir John Evans (1823-1908).
Ex Henry Dewey (1876–1965), a prominent British geologist and archaeologist who made seminal contributions to the study of the Palaeolithic period.
Ex R Richard Widdowson, a well-known UK-based antiquities specialist who owned the gallery 'Ancient Times' in Scarborough in Southern England.
Ex J Weston Smith.
Each accompanied by an illustrated collector's information card.
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LOT 1700
French Stone Age Solutrean Knapped Flint Blade Group - Ex Sir Arthur Evans
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
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Very Large French Stone Age Mousterian Knapped Flint Knife
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000-60,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Triangular in profile with remains of cortex to the broad base; made by Neanderthal. 180 grams, 11.3 cm
From Yonne, Bourgogne Franche-Compte Region of France. From a large French collection built up in the early 1900s. Acquired on the European art market. From a private collection. -
African Stone Age Homo Erectus Knapped Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 1,000,000-500,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
With a thick butt and a narrow, tapering point. 497 grams, 13.7 cm
From Wadi Talia, Africa. Ex old German collection formed in the 1970s by Dr J Fehkhaber. Acquired on the European art market. -
Farnham Stone Age Knapped Flint Wedge
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Narrow and rectangular in section with cortex to both faces; old inked legends 'Wheydon Pit Farnham', 'S.A.C.19 L.D. 132' and others mostly effaced. 178 grams, 16.5 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. Flint mining was also carried out by the Neolithic folk. Polished axes and leaf forms, arrowheads and knives, or possibly lance heads, are characteristic of the Neolithic flint work.
