Stone Age Scrapers and Shards in Display Frame

Comprising one flat ovate type with inked legend '142'; one edge scraper with scooped end and lateral nicks. 49.9 grams total, 45-57 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.

Cordate in form and biconvex in section with rounded point, glossy patina. 83.6 grams, 79 mm



Found Pierrepont, Calvados, Normandy, France. Acquired on the UK art market in the 2020s. From a private collection.

Attributed to Neanderthal man.

Polished porphyritic macehead fragment, lentoid in section; another from Wiltshire, UK, similar, plano-convex in section; accompanied by an old manuscript note signed by M. Wilkins: 'Neolithic polished hammer or macehead, unfortunately broken; porphyritic green stone, found by me at Fovant on the south border of Salisbury Plain. 1915'. 247 grams total, 71-73 mm



Found by M Wilkins on the South border of Salisbury Plain in 1915. This collection 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. Accompanied by an original handwritten note from the finder.