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LOT 1593
Stone Age Acheulean Triangular Knapped Flint Hand Axe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000 B.P.
3 3/8 in. (113 grams, 85.6 mm).
Ovate in profile and lentoid in section with broad butt and rounded point.
ProvenanceFrom an old West Country, UK, collection, sold at auction.
From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector.
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Egyptian Stone Age Triangular Knife
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 500,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
With thick rear edge and carefully knapped angled cutting edges. 28.9 grams, 96 mm
From a Derbyshire auction house, UK. From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector. -
Stone Age Knife Blade and Other Tool Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 222 grams total, 27-65 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis. -
'British Museum Recorded' Stone Age Homo Heidelbergensis Flint Handaxe from Happisburgh
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
Small sub-cordate handaxe of Wymer's type G, of glassy black flint with a few paler inclusions towards the butt; strip of light grey cortex remaining to the dorsal face at this end; flake scars appearing to be soft hammer struck with quite thin and invasive removals. 100 grams, 79 mm
Found Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, Tuesday 1st October 2019 - Saturday 30th November 2019. Acquired from the finder Mr P Macro. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-3AE638.
Discovery by P Macro after the 'Beast from the East Storm', which stripped the beach of the sand and helped to erode the Palaeolithic artefacts from the ancient Thames river bed. During the time the artefacts were dropped, the Thames ran through North Norfolk and what is now Happisburgh before it was pushed down to its current position in London via the Ice Age glacial melts. The site of Happisburgh in Norfolk has helped to push the history of inhabitation of the British Isles back by 200,000 making it a site of special importance. The blank for this piece was probably a large struck primary flake; the ventral face (non-cortical side) has an unmodified section of this visible still, and ripples and fissures are observable. The point has a tranchet blow to the ventral face (edge type vi) to sharpen it, the dorsal face has been effectively thinned, making the lateral cutting edges very acute and sharp. This thinning has produced a slight curve to the point when viewed from the side.
