Stone Age Knapped Flint Drill

With a rounded butt, slightly curving cutting edge and a round socket; inked collector's note 'Slagelse' to the rear. 1.28 kg, 17 cm



Found Slagelse, Denmark. From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s.

Hammerstone with rounded ends; old typed label 'ENQ:III5, Cherty sand-stone. 1950', 'Trottsford 19/3/50' and others mainly effaced. 310 grams, 11.4 cm



Found Trottsford, Norfolk, UK, on 19th March 1950. From the collection of 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.

Farnham district is one of the most interesting prehistoric regions in England, and has been visited by a succession of prehistoric peoples from Palaeolithic times onwards. Along the southern slope of the Farnham valley are three gravel terraces, which are famous prehistorically and have yielded large quantities of flint implements and bones of prehistoric animals, notably the mammoth. In prehistoric times, the chalk deposits played an important role in attracting settlers, as they contained rich layers of flint nodules used to make implements. The Farnham Gravels have been an abundant source of Palaeolithic finds, most prominent being hand axes. The axes differ in type, and each type is associated with a cultural phase of the Palaeolithic period. Types similar to these are found in similar deposits in the Somme valley and in many English valley gravels. Neolithic people are known to have engaged in flint mining. Polished axes and leaf forms, arrowheads and knives, or possibly lance heads, are characteristic of Neolithic flint work.

Piriform body in cream-coloured flint, with remains of an old handwritten label on one side. 572 grams,19 cm



Found Test Road, Huzbourough Copse, Hampshire, UK, August 1965. From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s.