Giant Stone Age Grimes Graves Ovate Flint Racloir

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

5 5/8 in. (328 grams, 14.5 cm).

Thin and slightly curved in section with long curved cutting edge; with inked find spot legend ' "Giant Racloir" / Grimes Graves / 1918' and label to reverse 'PO204'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Grimes Graves, UK, in 1918.
Acquired from a Buckingham, UK, collection.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N189; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

CONDITION

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