Product Description
Site occupied and dated to 65,000 to 57,000 years ago. A large Palaeolithic (Neanderthal) flint flake knife tool found many years back close to the now famous Palaeolithic Neanderthal habitation site of Lynford Quarry, Norfolk.[This famous and well documented site sat 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. The quarry is now a nature reserve owned by English Heritage so tools can no longer be unearthed here, so this is a rare opportunity to obtain a good Neanderthal flint tool from a notable site]. Fashioned from a large flake of mottled grey flint and well worked along one side to form a still sharp almost convex main cutting edge with some lighter reworking evident to further enhance or re-hone the blade edge. The thicker side of the flake makes a good grip for the tool and still has some original pebble cortext on its end. Intact and in very nice overall condition, with good surface ageing. A much larger than normal example of a Neanderthal Flake knife from a notable site, 130mm long x 120mm wide x 22mm at thickest (grip end)
