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LOT 0345
Large Stone Age Salisbury Knapped Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA MID 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 5/8 in. (457 grams, 19.5 cm).
Cigar-shaped in profile and lntoid in section with small patch of cortex. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Acquired from Mr Edwards in November 2002.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N143; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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