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LOT 1999
Stonehenge Knapped Flint Tool Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4,000 YEARS B.P.
1 - 2 in. (44 grams total, 27-49 mm).
Comprising four implements and flakes, each with an inked find location. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound by the vendor's great-grandfather, Henry Earle Wilkinson, in the late 19th century; thence by descent.
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British Stone Age Napped Flint Blade Scraper from Farnham
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Made on a long flint blade with intricate re-touch around 95 percent of the piece. 18.9 grams, 67.4 mm
Found in 1901. 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 to a gentleman in Kent. The collection was then sold again in the 2020’s via a UK auction house. -
Scandinavian Type VIB Knapped Flint Dagger
Early Bronze Age, circa 1800 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
With lentoid-section shank, leaf-shaped blade; repaired. 58.4 grams, 16.2 cm
From as European collection formed after 1968. From the private collection of a North Somerset, UK, gentleman collector. -
Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 60,000 B.P.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Ovate in profile and lentoid in section with broad butt and rounded point; some cortex to one face. 1.23 kg, 16 cm
Found close to the Palaeolithic Neanderthal site of Lynford Quarry, Norfolk. Private collection, London, UK.
Lynford Quarry, a famous and well-documented site, sits on the edge of an ancient channel of water where Neanderthals thrived and hunted. When excavated many years back, hundreds of flint tools were unearthed alongside thousands of butchered bones and teeth of mammoths, woolly rhinos and deer. This axe may have been used for crushing bones to extract the nutritious marrow.
