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LOT 1505
Large Stone Age Oval Pecked Stone Macehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 3/4 in. (1.22 kg, 14.5 cm).
Ellipsoid in plan with shallow socket to each face. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Footnotes
The opposed depressions imply that the creator had begun the process of making the vertical mounting socket.
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