A beautiful Mesolithic levallois flake in translucent quartzite 7 cms long with a lovely pale buff glossy patination, in perfectly preserved condition.  There is a well-defined positive bulb of percussion with an eralleur scar and a small amount of cortex at the distal end.  This is a not uncommon type of Mesolithic tool, though its exact purpose in unknown.  Found on the Hampshire/West Sussex borders, southern England.

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This Palaeolithic hand axe is a survivor from more than 50,000 years ago.  Finished with a soft hammer it is retouched on both faces to produce a lovely thin ovate shape.  The flint is patinated a pale buff colour with translucent areas.  Used to butcher and skin game and probably also as a scraper to prepare hides.  Found in Hampshire.

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A  beautiful flint flake tool that is the Mesolithic answer to the Swiss Army Knife. 7 centimentres long in grey and amber flint with a slight milky patination.  The left side has been  abruptly retouched to blunt it so it can be held comfortably against an index finger.  The right side has been retouched to produce a razor sharp convex scraper, while the distal end (bottom) has been retouched as a concave scraper or spokeshave for the shafts of arrows and spears. Between the two scrapers, the toolmaker has contrived to leave a lovely piercing point what is still wickedly sharp today.  Hampshire, England.

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These little gem-like Microliths were made in the Mesolithic period to be mounted in a wooden shaft of arrow or spear.  The coin is a penny and the longest flake is barely 3 centimetres.  They are fashioned from flints of various hues and are so thin they are translucent.  Found in the Hampshire- West Sussex area of Southern England.

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