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LOT 1458
Stone Age 'Cissbury Ring' Knapped Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000 B.P.
4 3/8 in. (174 grams, 11.2 cm).
Long blade with sharply tapering point, edges worked from both sides.
ProvenanceFound near Cissbury Ring Iron Age Hill Fort, near Worthing, West Sussex, UK, in the 1960s.
Ex Ron Kerridge collection, West Sussex, UK.
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