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LOT 1714
Stone Age Bifacial Flint Hand Axe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
3 1/2 in. (131 grams, 91 mm).
Ovate in profile with carefully worked edge; old collector's label '14 145'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found possibly Scarborough area, North Yorkshire, UK.
Acquired Oxford, UK, November 2002.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N145; 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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