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LOT 1555
Stone Age Collection of Flint Tools and Implements
PALAEOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-6,000 B.P.
3/8 - 2 1/4 in. (254 grams total including box, 10-58 mm).
Mixed group of points, scrapers and other tools embedded in a foam matrix for transportation. [16, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
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Stone Age Flaked Flint Handaxe
Mesolithic Period, 8th-4th millennium B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Lentoid in section and ovate in plan, with narrow rounded butt. 42 grams, 85 mm
Found Suffolk, UK, 1980s. -
British Stone Age Flint Knife from Fulbrook
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
With a thick facetted butt and a narrow scooped blade, with inked legend 'Near Fulbrook 1900'. 40 grams, 88 mm
Found near Fulbrook, Maidstone, Kent, in 1900. From the collection of Captain Streatfield who helped to fund the archaeology excavations at Farnham, Kent. After Captain Streatfield passed away in the 1940s, his collection was sold at auction. -
Stone Age Knapped Scraper and Implement Collection
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 700,000-600,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £14
Bore triangular in section with square butt, scraper with broad edge. 109 grams total, 72-78 mm
Found Department Indre et Loire, Epargne, Grand Pressigny, South West France. Collected in the 1930s. Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collector. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
