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LOT 1501
Stone Age Bifacially Knapped Flint Knife
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 in. (523 grams, 13cm).
Roughly D-shaped with broad cutting cleaver blade, much cortex remaining to both faces. [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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