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LOT 1511
Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 30,000-15,000 B.C.
10 in. (1 kg, 25.5 cm).
Lentoid section handaxe with narrow tip, irregular broad butt. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Normandy, France.
From an old English collection.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 3.1.
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