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LOT 1978
Large Belgian Stone Age Wide Flint Core
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.P.
5 7/8 in. (676 grams, 14.9 cm).
Sturdy tongue-shaped core with parallel facets to one face, cortex to the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Spiennes, Belgium.
From an old Paris collection.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Footnotes
From the world renowned and now world heritage flint factory site of Spiennes.
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