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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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Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
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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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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.
