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LOT 1453
Stone Age British Knapped Flint Tool Group
PALAEOLITHIC TO NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-6000 B.C.
4 - 6 in. (1.42 grams total, 10 - 15.6 cm).
Group of three irregular grey and honey-coloured flint cleavers with varying amounts of cortex in place. [3, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found UK.
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.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, items 1.7 and 1.9, for types.
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