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LOT 1221
Stone Age British Knapped Flint Axehead
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, 15TH-10TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 3/8 in. (129 grams, 13.5 cm).
Being a slender knapped flint axe of generally triangular cross-section with convex cutting edge tapering slightly to a rounded butt; in a white patinated grey-brown flint as typically seen with chalk downland finds in southern England. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
LiteratureSee Palmer, Susan, Mesolithic Cultures of Britain, Dolphin, 1977, pp.92-93, for similar examples.
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