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LOT 1561
Stone Age Arrowhead and Other Artefact Group
MAINLY 4TH-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 - 2 3/8 in. (167 grams total, 18-60 mm).
Knapped flint blades and other items, some with old collector's labels or inked findspot legend. [40, No Reserve]
Provenance
From 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.
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