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LOT 1611
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
STONE AGE 'ANTRIM' PORCELLANITE CHISEL, SCRAPER AND BURNISHER
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
2 - 3 1/8 in. (120 grams total, 51-81 mm).
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
2 - 3 1/8 in. (120 grams total, 51-81 mm).
Comprising: ovate scraper with inked 'Larne 1972' and '1910-104', '54' to reverse; subrectangular burnisher with inked 'N7'; Broad chisel blade with inked 'M9-102'. [3, No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Found Tievebarragh, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, before 1979, Larne in 1972, and Glenarm area before 1979.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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