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LOT 1549
Stone Age British Knapped Augite-Granophyre Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2800 B.C.
5 7/8 in. (456 grams, 15 cm).
Triangular in section with thick butt; unfinished. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Craigllwyd axe factory site, Caernarvonshire, Wales.
Acquired from Stephen Murray, in 1978.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N8; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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