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These TWO British Late Neolithic flint flake tools were found on an ancient bowl barrows site in Sopley Common, England. They date to approximately 2500 B.C. and are genuine flint Neolithic KNIFE BLADES. This site is classified as a 'scheduled monument', and is protected from any alteration or excavation. Collected over 50 years ago before any legislation regulated the site, these flint tools are a desirable addition to a collection that values scarce specimens such as these.
Both flake flint tools are complete with naturally lustrous soil sheen. Extensive flaking and ancient resharpening is seen on the cutting edges. Ancient sediment deposits are intact in all hinge fractures and micro-crevices of these specimens - irrefutable evidence of age and authenticity.
HISTORY
The bowl barrows at Sopley Common in England are protected as a 'scheduled monument'. In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorized change or excavation. The protection provided to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
A bowl barrow is a type of burial mound or tumulus. A barrow is a mound of earth used to cover a tomb. The bowl barrow gets its name from its resemblance to an upturned bowl. Bowl barrows were created from the Neolithic through to the Bronze Age in Great Britain. A bowl barrow is an approximately hemispherical mound covering one or more inhumations or cremations. Where the mound is composed entirely of stone, rather than earth, the term cairn replaces the word barrow. The mound may be simply a mass of earth or stone, or it may be structured by concentric rings of posts, low stone walls, or upright stone slabs. In addition, the mound may have a kerb of stones or wooden posts.
Barrows were usually built in isolation in various situations on plains, valleys and hill slopes, although the most popular sites were those on hilltops.
