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LOT 0308
Stone Age Classic-Shaped Flint Handaxe
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 500,000-300,000 B.P.
5 1/8 in. (443 grams total including stand, axe: 13 cm).
Cordiform with mottled autumnal patina and glassy flint; traces of fossil marine creatures within the flint, now turned to quartz; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
Provenance
Found Thames gravels, Kent, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Footnotes
Attributed to Homo Heidelbergensis.
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