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LOT 1689
Collection of Stone Age Tools with Animal Teeth
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.P.
1 3/8 - 3 in. (224 grams total, 35-77 mm).
Possibly from organised archaeology digs: five flint scrapers marked 'BHM' and 'BHS' with dates in the 1980s; two boar tusks marked 'BHM' with dates in the 1980s; quantity of mammal teeth, some marked 'BHM' or 'BHS' [12, No Reserve]
Provenance
Probably found in the 1980s.
From an old large English collection from Lincolnshire.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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