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LOT 1584
Group of Stone Age Flint Tools, Scrapers, Blades and Cores
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9000-3450 B.C.
7/8 - 2 1/4 in. (390 grams total, 22-55 mm).
A mixed group of twenty-one worked blades and other flint tools. [21, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Portland Bill, Dorset, UK, 1970s.
Ex Hampshire, UK, collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Literature
Cf. PAS NARC-A2C32D, for similar examples.
Footnotes
Mesolithic men made use of a vast range of materials and mass-production techniques to make the special tools they needed. One of the oldest examples of a 'factory' intended for large-scale production was discovered by Grahame Clark, in the underground of a reclaimed field at Star Carr, Yorkshire.
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LOT 1584
Group of Stone Age Flint Tools, Scrapers, Blades and Cores
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
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