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LOT 0336
Large Stone Age 'Happisburgh Type' Knapped Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 600,000-150,000 B.P.
4 1/2 in. (566 grams, 11.4 cm).
A serious collector's piece from the site of the oldest known stone tools in the UK and North West Europe; possibly of Wymer's Type C, worked around a fossil in the flint; on the reverse, a fossil sponge inclusion. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2019.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-E4FF9A.
See Wymer, J.J., The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain, Salisbury, 1999.
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LOT 0336
Large Stone Age 'Happisburgh Type' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
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