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LOT 1504
Danish Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 7TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
4 1/4 in. (986 grams, 10.9 cm).
Trapezoidal in plan and rectangular in section with square butt and broad cutting edge. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Denmark.
Formerly acquired in the late 1950s.
From the family collection of a South East London gentleman.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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