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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 Tenerian Culture Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 7500-5300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
A large pecked and ground axehead with a curved cutting edge and a narrow rounded butt. 390 grams, 11.2 cm
From a private French collection formed in the 1960s–1970s. -
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Sub-triangular scraper with cortex to the rounded face; inked inscription '6.PB.1070.C. / TWYDALL' to cortex. 107 grams, 76 mm
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. -
Stone Age Flint Scraper and Other Implement Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising nineteen knapped tools and one polished implement. 405 grams total, 3.2-13.4 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
In the Neolithic the continuing predominance of flint artefacts did not stop the evolution of the society. The neolithic people were different in radical way from their predecessors. Farming rather than hunting was now the basis of the human existence, creating slowly but inesorably a more sedentary way of life in villages of timber-houses. Consequently the artefacts created by the men of Neolithic were tool instruments, like axes used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for construction.
