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LOT 1552
Stone Age 'Cissbury Vineyard' Flaked Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4300-2300 B.C.
4 7/8 in. (152 grams, 12.3 cm).
With narrow butt and rounded cutting edge, old inked legend 'Cissbury Vineyard 7/4/73'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Cissbury Vineyard, Sussex, UK, 1st April 1973.
Ex an important Cambridgeshire collection by descent.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987,
item 4.3, for type.
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