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LOT 0327
Large Stone Age 'Somme' White Knapped Flint Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 240,000- 38,000 B.P.
6 in. (418 grams, 15 cm).
With curved outline to the tip, broad butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.1, for type.
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