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LOT 1486
Large Stone Age Speckled Stone Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 1/2 in. (928 grams, 19.4 cm).
An axehead or chisel with cylindrical body, conical butt and broad straight edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.163, for type.
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