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An extremely rare Mesolithic carved bone Harpoon, North Cambridgeshire Fens. SOLD
An extremely rare Mesolithic carved bone Harpoon, North Cambridgeshire Fens. SOLD
An extremely rare Mesolithic carved bone Harpoon, North Cambridgeshire Fens. SOLD An extremely rare Mesolithic carved bone Harpoon, North Cambridgeshire Fens. SOLD An extremely rare Mesolithic carved bone Harpoon, North Cambridgeshire Fens. SOLD An extremely rare Mesolithic carved bone Harpoon, North Cambridgeshire Fens. SOLD
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c.8000-6000 B.C. An extremely rare Mesolithic carved bone harpoon found many years back in the Upper Fen edge in Northern Cambridgeshire and from an old Cambridgeshire collection. This excellent carved bone harpoon was unearthed from a collapsed sand and peat embankment which had been damaged during a severe storm. Other Mesolithic implements and stone beads were also unearthed in the very same vicinity. The area of the Fen edge where it was discovered is East facing and towards the alluvial lowlands where in Mesolithic and Neolithic periods hunting for fish, mammals and similar resources was common. The harpoon has been expertly carved from bone (likely bovine) and then smoothly polished. It features two large and curved serial barbs carefully fashioned on one side. The end of the harpoon is neatly tapered for insertion into a carved socket on the end of a wooden shaft for use. Totally intact, undamaged and unrepaired with good sound surfaces, hardening and partial mineralisation of the bone and an excellent ageing / old patina from its Millennia buried in the earth and peat. A superb example of this very rare form of Mesolithic hunting implement, 69mm long x 16mm at widest x 4mm thick, supplied in a robust display box