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LOT 1585
Danish Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 7TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
2 1/2 in. (43 grams, 64 mm).
With narrow pointed butt, chamfered edge. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Isle of Zealand, Denmark.
Formerly acquired in the late 1950s.
From the family collection of a South East London collector.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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