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LOT 1492
Stone Age 'Biggin Hill' Flaked Axe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000-200,000 B.P.
4 in. (263 grams, 10.1 cm).
Lentoid in section with dressed lateral edges, broad cutting edge; old inked inscription 'infield bulldozed for road-widening / Jail Lane, Biggin Hill, Kent / TQ423593 602ft OD / coll'd J. Cooper 17.XI.73'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Jail Lane, Biggin Hill, Kent, UK, by J. Cooper on 17 November 1973.
LiteratureCf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.24, for type.
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