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LOT 1952
Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 60,000 B.P.
6 1/4 in. (1.23 kg, 16 cm).
Ovate in profile and lentoid in section with broad butt and rounded point; some cortex to one face.
ProvenanceFound close to the Palaeolithic Neanderthal site of Lynford Quarry, Norfolk.
Private collection, London, UK.
Lynford Quarry, a famous and well-documented site, sits on the edge of an ancient channel of water where Neanderthals thrived and hunted. When excavated many years back, hundreds of flint tools were unearthed alongside thousands of butchered bones and teeth of mammoths, woolly rhinos and deer. This axe may have been used for crushing bones to extract the nutritious marrow.
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LOT 1952
Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Mesolithic Period, circa 12,000-8,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Tongue-shaped in plan with a rounded butt. 227 grams, 12.7 cm
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British Stone Age Knapped Flint Turtle Back Scraper from Farnham
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Ovate in plan with intricate retouch around the majority of the piece. 22.2 grams, 41.4 mm
Found in 1901. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent. After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction to a gentleman in Kent. The collection was then sold again in the 2020’s via a UK auction house.
Named ‘’Turtle Back’’ due to the whole top being worked in to a dome.
