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LOT 2924
Norfolk Stone Age Knapped Ovate Flint Handaxe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
3 1/4 in. (117 grams, 83 mm).
Leaf-shaped in plan and biconvex in section, raised at the centre.
ProvenanceFound Norfolk, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
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LOT 2924
Norfolk Stone Age Knapped Ovate Flint Handaxe
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£60 (EUR 70; USD 81) +BP*
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Farnham Stone Age Knapped Flint 'Micro-Burins' Collection
Mesolithic Period, circa 15,000 B.P. or laterEstimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Group of microliths, each with a pointed end; about 50% with inked annotation. 10 grams total, 12-35 mm
Found during the original official excavations in the Farnham area, Surrey, UK, which were conducted by Harold Falkner (1875-1963) and William Francis Rankine (c.1877-1962), who were instrumental in the excavation works and pit dwellings at sites including Six Bells, Frensham, Tilford, Thursley and Bagshot, and Waverley, amongst others, at and near Farnham in the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the material is now in the prestigious Farnham museum. The present part of the collection having been gifted to their good friend and Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham, who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew. -
Stone Age Mixed Type Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 111 grams total, 22-42 mm
Ex UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Hampshire Stone Age Knapped Flint Ficron Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000-60,000 B.P.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Bids: 4 | Current Bid: £80
Piriform in plan and biconvex in section with irregular butt; old inked legend 'N.Romsey Hants'. 350 grams, 14.8 cm
Found North Romsey, Hampshire, UK. Ex Martin Doyle collection, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s.
