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LOT 1249
Stone Age 'Boxgrove' Knapped Flint Hand Axe
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC, 40000-10000 B.C.
6 in. (500 grams, 15 cm).
Formed bifacially on a thick core of roughly triangular cross-section tapering from a finely formed convex point to a broad and thick butt, in white calcined flint; with inked inscription: 'LONG DOWN HALNAKER 1957'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Long Down, Halnaker Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex, UK, in 1957.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
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