Stone Age Fontmaure Jasper Neanderthal Scraper

Cordate type with bulb to the butt, rippled surface; old inked legend 'Swanscombe Kent'. 57.7 grams, 69.4 mm



Found Swanscombe, Kent, UK. From the original collection of Henry Dewey. From the collection of a London, UK, gentleman.

Attributed to Neanderthal man.

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



Probably found Mississippi Valley, Arkansas, U.S.A. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by an old handwritten information slip by Peter Clayton.

Lunate in plan and triangular in section with pointed end. 20.7 grams, 73 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.