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LOT 1553
Stone Age Acheulian Knapped Axehead
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 300,000-200,000 B.P.
5 3/4 in. (530 grams, 14.6 cm).
Roughly piriform in profile with tapering point. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria, 1967.
From an old Hamburg, Germany collection.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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