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LOT 1639
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
4 3/8 in. (192 grams, 11.2 cm).
Knapped from light grey flint and with an old handwritten label to one side. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Test Road, Huzbourough Copse, Hampshire, UK, January 1966.
From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s.
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