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LOT 1649
Large British Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
3 1/8 in. (22 grams, 80 mm).
Plano-convex in section with square tang and lateral ends; median bulb.
Provenance
From a Lancashire auction house, UK.
From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector.
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