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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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Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 240,000- 38,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
With broad rounded butt, D-shaped in section, some cortex at butt. 210 grams, 10.5 cm
Found in the Somme Region, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Large Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Scraper Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Irregular in form with worked cutting edge, inked inscription '1684 / TWYDALL'. 245 grams, 10.3 cm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
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Stone Age Polished Stone Handaxe
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
With gently curved cutting edge, shallow pointed butt. 426 grams, 17.8 cm
From a very old collection based on the cabinet patination. From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
