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LOT 0335
Massive Stone Age 'Happisburgh Type' Knapped Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 600,000-150,000 B.P.
6 in. (1 kg, 15.3 cm).
Reputedly one of the largest recorded Happisburgh-type handaxes ever found, a serious collector's piece from the site of the oldest known stone tools in the UK and North West Europe; a proto-handaxe of Wymer's Type C with a large amount of cortex in situ, tip crudely shaped with minimal removal. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Walcott, near Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2018.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-6A4F0A.
See Wymer, J.J., The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain, Salisbury, 1999.
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LOT 0335
Massive Stone Age 'Happisburgh Type' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
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Stone Age Classic British Teardrop-Shaped Knapped Flint Handaxe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860
Triangular with broad rounded butt; with old inked inscription: 'Colchester Valley'. 671 grams, 18.5 cm
Found Colchester Valley, Essex, UK. From a very old English 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. -
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Elegant Stone Age 'Salisbury' Slender Grey Knapped Flint Adze
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Biconvex in section, long and slender with narrow butt. 147 grams, 14.4 cm
Found whilst fieldwalking in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Ex English private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector. -
Large Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Irregular in form with broad cutting edge, old inked inscription '1804 / TWYDALL'. 569 grams, 13.4 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.
