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LOT 1564
British Stone Age Polished Stone Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4000-2300 B.P.
3 1/8 in. (103 grams, 80 mm).
With rounded blade, butt sheared off. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Tottle Brook, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK.
From the private collection of John Fox, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, antiquarian and archaeologist; his collection assembled in the 1950s-1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.2, for type.
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