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LOT 2855
Polecats Farnham Stone Age Knapped Fishing Weight
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
2 7/8 in. (183 grams, 73 mm).
D-shaped in section with an ellipsoid hole at one end, cortex to one face and within the hole. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Polecats, near Farnham, Sussex, UK, 2nd August 1961(?).
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.
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LOT 2855
Polecats Farnham Stone Age Knapped Fishing Weight
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped in plan with a rounded butt and sharp tip; with a handwritten note reading 'Obsidian (black volcanic glass) lance point. Probably Mississippi area, c. 3rd millennium BC.' 78.1 grams, 15.7 cm
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Cissbury Ring Stone Age Knife Blade
Mesolithic Period, circa 15,000 B.P. or laterEstimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Parallel-sided blade with thick butt, triangular in section. 55.8 grams, 96 mm
Found near Cissbury Ring Iron Age Hill Fort, near Worthing, West Sussex, UK, September 1947. This knife was gifted to 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. -
El Golea Algeria Stone Age Knapped Arrowheads
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising five triangular arrowheads in pale brown and black stone; three with old labels. 3.76 grams total, 15.7-20.2 mm
Found El Golea, Algeria. Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s.
