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LOT 0296
Large Stone Age Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
9 in. (1.8 kg, 23 cm).
With partly rounded butt and convex convergent sides, straight vertical cutting edge and central mounting socket. [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.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 6.19.
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