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LOT 1480
Stone Age 'Bacton' Knapped Flint Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 240,000- 38,000 B.P.
3 1/4 in. (130 grams, 81 mm).
Sub-cordiform, lentoid in section with butt formed from the unaltered cortex-covered surface. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Bacton, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2020.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.17, for type.
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